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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3735048, member: 82322&quot;]Doug&#039;s question is interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do we know [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] &#039;s original coin depicts Asklepios?&nbsp; Barclay Head <a href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/mysia.html#Pergamum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/mysia.html#Pergamum" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> &quot;According to one tradition Pergamum was colonized from Epidaurus under the leadership of the god Asklepios.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The identification is a guess, based on the portrait and the names of any favored deities that have come down through written sources.&nbsp; If a new coin of Pergamum was discovered with a &quot;ZEUS&quot; inscription the identification would change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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