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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2745186, member: 82322&quot;]This extremely rare coin may depict a mysterious medical myth.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]627466[/ATTACH] </p><p>MYSIA, Parion 200-44 BC, AE18 4.48g</p><p>Obv: Helmeted Athena athena head right, owl behind</p><p>Rev: PARI; Woman (of the Ophiogene family?) seated on rock feeding snake</p><p>Weber #5147; Mionnet vol V page 387, #647</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently both Strabo and Pliny mention that there existed in Parion a family called the Ophiogenes.&nbsp; This family had the power to cure the bite of a snake by merely touching the person that had been bitten.&nbsp; I assume that is why a cataloger speculated the woman on the reverse to be a member of that family.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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