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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24640187, member: 26430&quot;]Cool type, Salus feeding a snake coming out of a basket! I&#039;ve got the Sestertius version (one with hyper-color patina!)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567844[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Though a much less interesting patina, I think the next one is my favorite Maximinus. It&#039;s part of my &quot;two captives and trophy&quot; collection, a design that appeared on Roman coins for over 350 years, from Julius Caesar into the Constantinian Dynasty:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567846[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/10711" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/10711" rel="nofollow">RPC VI (Temp) 10711</a>, example 25 = <a href="http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=247230" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=247230" rel="nofollow">Coin Project ID 79000742</a> = <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/two-captives-trophy/cng-maximinus-tetradrachm/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/two-captives-trophy/cng-maximinus-tetradrachm/" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Salus coin, though, might be the Provincial Severus Alexander below. As I understand it, she&#039;s the Roman equivalent of the Greek deity of health, Hygeia, who is shown below with Asklepios, Greek god of medicine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, after 2 or 3 years, I still haven&#039;t broken it out of its NGC shell, so I don&#039;t have a great photo. It actually looks pretty fantastic for one of these. Ex&nbsp; Morris / Phil Peck Collection -- I&#039;d love to know where he got it (apparently Heritage threw away his collector envelopes for the ones they got encapsulated, which is tragic).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, once onto the theme of medical and health-related imagery on Greek and Roman coins, it&#039;s possible to sprawl out in all directions...</p><p><br /></p><p>One more set of favorites... A bunch of coins from &quot;The Maleatas Collection of Epidauros&quot; (mostly acq. by that collector from BCD). Epidauros was home of the most famous Asklepeion in Greece -- temple of the healing god Asklepios, whose head appears on 5 of the obverses below (coin 4 is Apollo, whose sanctuary at Epidauros is a few miles east of the Asklepeion):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567848[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Askepios&#039; companion animals were snakes and dogs (the latter appear on the two reverses on the right; I don&#039;t yet have an Epidaurian snake).</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently dogs were considered healing animals in a literal sense too, and were employed as wound-lickers. According to Pausanias, the temple kept dogs on site (in <a href="http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Literature/Pausanias/en/Pausanias2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Literature/Pausanias/en/Pausanias2.html" rel="nofollow">Book 2</a>, Ch. 27, if I&#039;m keeping my references straight).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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