Ex Burstein Collection

207, Lot: 296. Estimate $750. Sold for $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Hadrianothera. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (49mm, 44.04 g, 6h). Aurelius Attalus Moschianus, magistrate. Struck circa AD 214. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, gorgoneion on breastplate, slight drapery on far shoulder / Caracalla standing left, holding spear, clasping hands with Aesculapius, holding serpent-staff, and being crowned by Tyche, holding cornucopia. Peus 366 (25 October 2000), lot 584 (this coin); Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 404 = Lanz 114 (26 May 2003), lot 508 (same obv. die); otherwise unpublished. Near VF, brown patina, some encrustation and surface roughness. Struck on a huge flan. Apparently the second known.

Ex Marcel Burstein Collection; Peus 366 (25 October 2000), lot 584.

While journeying to campaign against the Parthians in AD 214, Caracalla visited the temple of Aesculapius in Pergamum. This medallion may record a visit to a temple of the god of healing in Hadrianothera as well.