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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP92885
Caracalla and Julia Domna, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Caracalla| |and| |Julia| |Domna,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, In Greek as well as Roman mythology, Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia, Latin: Hygea or Hygia), was one of the Asclepiadae; the sons and daughters of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and his wife Epione. Hygieia was the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness and hygiene. Hygieia and her four sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia (health, cleanliness, and sanitation); Panacea (universal remedy); Iaso (recuperation from illness); Aceso (the healing process); and Aglaïa (beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment). Hygieia also played an important part in her father's cult. While her father was more directly associated with healing, she was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name is the source of the word "hygiene". Hygieia was imported by the Romans as the goddess Valetudo, the goddess of personal health, but in time she started to be increasingly identified with the ancient Italian goddess of social welfare, Salus.
RP92885. Bronze pentassarion, H-J Marcianopolis 6.19.46.2 (R5, same dies); Varbanov I 1048 (R5, same rev. die); BMC Thrace p. 31, 23; AMNG I -; Moushmov -; SNG Cop -, F, interesting portraits, brown toned surfaces with brassy high points, light marks, obverse a little off center, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 12.483g, maximum diameter 27.3mm, die axis 15o, consular legate Quintilianus, 215 A.D.; obverse ANTΩNINOC AYΓOYCTOC IOΛIA ΔOMNA, laureate bust of Caracalla right facing draped bust of Julia Domna left; reverse YΠ KYNTIΛIANOY MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, tetrastyle temple, statue of Hygieia within, standing facing, head right, feeding snake held in right arm from phiale in left hand, pellet in pediment, E (mark of value) upper left; zero sales of this type recorded on Coin Archives for the last two decades, this is the first specimen of this type handled by FORVM; very scarce; SOLD











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