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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4305267, member: 75937&quot;]Appealing coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] ! I enjoy the coins of Pautalia because they have so many different reverse types and Ruzicka is such a helpful reference. Informative overview of the life and tragic fate of Geta, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several coins of Asklepios and Aesculapius. Here are a few favorites.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like this one because it features both Hygieia and Asklepios side by side:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-hadrianopolis-hygeia-and-asklepios-jpg.940547/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 22.7 mm, 6.54 g, 7 h.</p><p>Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 147-155.</p><p>Obv: ·I·AVCTEINA CEBACTH, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Hygieia, feeding serpent from patera, and Asklepios, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, standing facing one-another.</p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" rel="nofollow">RPC (temp) 10453</a>; SNG Cop 560; Jurukova 84-87; Varbanov 3219; Moushmov 2521; Mionnet suppl. 2, 636.</p><p><br /></p><p>This interesting one features Asklepios in a rather Parthian-appearing hairstyle and Faustina Jr in a hairstyle she never actually wore:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-dioshieron-asklepios-naumann-jpg.1088131/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 17.1 mm, 3.04 g, 7 h.</p><p>Lydia, Dioshieron, Magistrate L. Iouli. Mithres (Grammateus), AD 147-161.</p><p>Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, bare-headed and draped bust right, hair in a top-knot and looped ponytail.</p><p>Rev: ЄΠI MIΘPOV ΔIOCIЄPЄITΩN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.2, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" rel="nofollow">1236</a> (temp); BMC 22.76, 12; SNG Cop 116; SNG Turkey 240-41; Waddington 4963.</p><p>Notes: Double-die match to Paris specimen (<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" rel="nofollow">BNF</a>) and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" rel="nofollow">Ashmolean specimen</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I like this one for the artistic rendering of Asklepios on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/severus-alexander-marcianopolis-asklepios-jpg.1032201/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Severus Alexander, AD 222-235.</p><p>Roman Provincial Æ 27.2 mm, 8.75 g, 6 h.</p><p>Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Legate Um(brius?) Tereventinus, AD 226-227.</p><p>Obv: AVT K M AVP CEVH AΛEZANΔPOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: HΓ ȢM TEPEBENTINOV MAPKIANOΠOΛIT-ΩN, Asklepios standing facing, head left, holding serpent staff.</p><p>Refs: AMNG I 1027; Moushmov 696; Varbanov 1685 (same dies).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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