★ Asklepios of Pellene ★

Achaia. Pellene. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Assarion Æ

24 mm, 3,73 g

Illegible inscription, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right / [ΠЄΛ]-ΛHNЄωN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.

nearly very fine

BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC Peloponnesus -; cf. NCP, p. 92 (not for Caracalla).

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