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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4600963, member: 15481&quot;]Of course, buddy</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a type familiar to this board, and posted many times:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139510[/ATTACH]</p><p>Trebonianus calling on the healing powers of Apollo during the Cypriot plague.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139511[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139512[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Salus, as you asked for. I suspect the message on these two was a wish for a politically «healthy» climate, though...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139514[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting Salus reverse from the emperor that perhaps could have been one of the great ones, but succumbed to the plague himself; Claudius II Gothicus. The legend says SALVS AVG, but the deity is the Egyptian goddess Isis:</p><p>«As mourner, she was a principal deity in rites connected with the dead; as magical healer, she cured the sick and brought the deceased to life; and as mother, she was a role model for all women.» (Encyclopedia Britannica)</p><p>Claudius II minted a whole series of SALVS AVG coins with different deities. Reading up on them might be worthwhile during the quaranteene?</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, my wish is that your daughter, you and your family will get through this without loss. My last coin for you is Spes, goddess of HOPE:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139518[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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