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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8330826, member: 110350&quot;]Fascinating. How does one know when a bearded serpent is supposed to represent Glycon when it does <u>not</u> have a human head? For example, the two coins from Marcianopolis in the OP.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would raise the same question about this coin, but it was issued well before the Glycon &quot;myth&quot; was invented. But I&#039;ll post it anyway!</p><p><br /></p><p>Mysia, Pergamon (under Roman Republic from 133 BCE, Province of Asia), AE 19 mm., 133-27 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Asklepios right / Rev. Bearded serpent coiled around oval Omphalos covered by net [<i>agrenon</i>],*&nbsp; AΣKΛHΠIOY downwards to right, ΣΩTHΡOΣ downwards to left [ = Asklepios Sothros or Soter, meaning “the Savior”]. BMC 15 Mysia 158 (p. 129) &amp; PL. XXVII no. 4 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalogue of the Greek Coins of the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London 1892)]; Sear, <i>Greek Coins</i> 3967 (p. 369) (ill.) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 2: Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; SNG Von Aulock I 1377 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 1: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Mysia, Troas, Aiolis, Lesbos, Ionia</i> (Berlin, 1957)]; SNG BnF 1803-1827 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothéque Nationale, Vol. 5, Mysia</i> (Paris 2001)]. 19 mm., 9.91 g., 11 h. [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mysia-pergamon-133-127-bce-asklepios-serpent-on-ompalos-19-mm-9-91-g-jpg-version-jpg.1285629/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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