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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Caracalla| > RS89492
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D.
|Caracalla|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.|, Salus was the Roman goddess of health. She was Hygieia to the Greeks, who believed her to be the daughter of Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing, and Epione, the goddess of soothing of pain. Her father Asclepius learned the secrets of keeping death at bay after observing one snake bringing another snake healing herbs. Woman seeking fertility, the sick, and the injured slept in his temples in chambers where non-poisonous snakes were left to crawl on the floor and provide healing.
RS89492. Silver denarius, RIC IV 82; RSC III 422; BMCRE V p. 251, 484; Hunter III 28; SRCV II 6860, Choice VF, excellent portrait, full borders centering, high points flatly struck, edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.287g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 0o, 205 A.D.; obverse ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse PONTIF TR P VIII COS II (priest, holder of Tribunitian power for 8 years, consul for the 2nd time), Salus seated left, feeding snake coiled around altar, left arm resting on side of throne; ex Numismatik Naumann auction 73, part of lot 970; SOLD




  







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