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A bronze coin of Pergamon showing Asklepios and a serpent coiled around the Omphalos Coin Type: Bronze AE20 of Pergamon in Mysia, c. 133-16 BCE.
Size and Weight: 19mm x 20mm, 7.02g
Obverse: Laureate head of Asklepios right.
Reverse: AΣKLHΠIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ
Snake coiled around the Omphalos.
Provenance: Forum Ancient Coins, August 2009
Ref: GCV 3967; BMC Mysia p.129, 158; SNG France 1803; SNG von Aulock 1372.
BW Ref: 002 042 144
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