197, Lot: 70. Estimate $150. Sold for $245. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 40mm (42.62 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Caracalla standing left, saluting tree with Asklepian serpent coiled around it; between, statue of Telesphoros. SNG France -; BMC 326 (same obv. die). Fair, brown surfaces. A protocontorniate, the edges having been tapped to create raised rims.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

This medallion was probably struck following Caracalla’s visit to Pergamum and its temple to Asklepios in AD 214.