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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2560599, member: 56859&quot;]Very nice!&nbsp; The first two have particularly attractive portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting theory!&nbsp; I had wondered about the massive number of Faustina II bronzes offered by this dealer recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>As sometimes happens, I just posted my sole Pautalia provincial yesterday in another thread <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fproxy.php%253Fimage%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%25252Fmedia%25252Fae43f8_b253f019eb874641b1f598c2e54655ec.jpg_srb_p_850_426_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb%2526hash%253D56d6f78675d44b31b2a2b606eba80409%26hash%3Dd9ac4908a1a8daea6731551d50681a43&amp;hash=5928208d1763f0ac8287aec04b5bfb89" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>THRACE, Pautalia. Caracalla</b></p><p>CE 198-217</p><p>AE29, 16.4 gm</p><p>Obv: AYT K M AY CEY ANTΩNEINOC; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC; Asklepios, holding a caduceus, seated on back of winged serpent flying right</p><p>Ref: Varbanov 5007</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla has a large number of coins depicting Asklepios, as well as bunches of coins with medical themes.&nbsp; In 214 he traveled the shrine of Askelpios in Pergamum. </p><p>From <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/78*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/78*.html" rel="nofollow">Cassius Dio, Roman History, LXXVIII.15</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>For he was sick not only in body, partly from visible partly from secret ailments, but in mind as well, suffering from certain distressing visions, and often he thought he was being pursued by his father and by his brother, armed with swords.</b>&nbsp; Therefore he called up spirits to find some remedy against them, among others the spirit of his father and that of Commodus. But not one of them spoke a word to him except Commodus; as for Severus, they say that Geta accompanied him, though unsummoned. Yet not even Commodus said anything to help him, but, quite the contrary, so that he terrified him all the more; for this is what he said:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">&quot;Draw nearer judgment, which gods demand of thee for Severus,&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">then something else, and finally:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">&quot;Having in secret placed a malady hard to be cured.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">For publishing these facts many were treated with gross indignities. But to Antoninus no one even of the gods gave any response that conduced to healing either his body or his mind, although he paid homage to all the more prominent ones. This showed most clearly that they regarded, not his votive offerings or his sacrifices, but only his purposes and his deeds. <b>He received no help from Apollo Grannus, nor yet from Aesculapius or Serapis, in spite of his many supplications and his unwearying persistence. For even while abroad he sent to them prayers, sacrifices and votive offerings, and many couriers ran hither and thither every day carrying something of this kind;&nbsp; and he also went to them himself, hoping to prevail by appearing in person, and did all that devotees are wont to do; but he obtained nothing that contributed to health.</b></font></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>...</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>It seems Caracalla at least had some self-awareness of his problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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