★ The Asklepios of Pellene ★

Achaia. Pellene. Septimius Severus AD 193-211.
Assarion Æ

21 mm, 4,47 g

Illegible inscription, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [ΠЄΛΛHNЄ]ΩN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.

nearly very fine

BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC Peloponnesus -; NCP p. 92; Mus. Arig. IV, No 55, pl.XIV.

This is a very characteristic variety of the usual representation of Asklepios: he holds his serpent-entwined staff differently and he doesn't lean on it.

From the Tareq Hani collection