Caria, Heraclea Salbace Bronze III cent., Æ 23.5mm., 5.39g. Bust of Senate r. Rev. Aesclepius seated l., pointing to a serpent coiled around an omphalos and holding a curved object by his side. SNG von Aulock 2544. BMC -.

Very rare and intersting. About Very Fine.

Ex Schulman New York June 1969, 172. From the Thomas Olive Mabbott collection.

Aesclepius is rarely shown as a seated figure, and all depictions of him as such copy the statue from his temple at Epidauros, which this clearly is not. The seated figure might be taken as Serapis, but he does not wear the kalathos, and in any case the Aesclepius. In addition, winning bids of EEC clients for this coin are subject to a 5% fee on hammer price as a reimbursement for import duty paid to HMRC.