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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2330905, member: 74834&quot;]Dear [USER=22309]@SwK[/USER], what an exceptional and admirable piece to own. I found some information about it on a French website by searching &#039;Caracalla medaillon&#039; (uncheck the box &quot;En Stock&quot;) <a href="http://www.cgb.fr/navigation.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/navigation.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin of 16 assaria; there are also smaller variations (10 assaria). On that website cgb.fr several of these coins were offered in the last 15 years or so, but all of these in much worse condition. I&#039;m translating the description of the first coin for you, from the French, for it gives a lot of insight. I&#039;m sure, though, there must be American or British numismatical publications for you to be found.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This medallion (43 mm, 41,67 gr.) refers to the worship Caracalla vowed to Aesculapius. Traveling in Asia Minor in 214, the emperor visited the site of Pergamon and sacrificed to Asclepius in his sanctuary, hoping to regain health. The visit of the Emperor and his ablutions gave the opportunity to the issue of a very important coinage.</p><p>The von Aulock collections and the Copenhagen museum contain two coins with the same reverses, but of much smaller diameter. In a recent article, M. Marcellesi, &#039;À propos d&#039;une monnaie de Caracalla trouvée à Thasos: Le monnayage de Pergame et la troisième néocorie de la cité&#039;, published in 1998 in the <i>Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique</i>, reported on these Caracalla medallions, p.57, note 26.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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