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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 4262475, member: 111387&quot;]I also ran to check, as I remember &quot;Salus feeding a snake&quot; while recently attempting to fully attribute some newly acquired coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alas...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another Crispina Sestertius showing Salus seated feeding a snake.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://srv2.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-resize-vp1bn43Wq35V.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Crispina Augusta, AD 178-182. Æ Sestertius</b> </p><p>Rome mint, struck under Commodus.</p><p><b>Obv.</b> Draped bust right.</p><p><b>Rev.</b> Salus seated left, holding patera, feeding serpent rising from altar, resting elbow on back on chair.</p><p>RIC III 672b (R)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>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.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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