Description: Ionia, Smyrna, 2nd century AD. Prophylax, magistrate. OΠΛO ΦYΛAΞ; bare head of Herakles right / CMVPNAIΩN; Telesphoros standing facing.

Diameter: AE16 mm

Weight: 3,3 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: BMC 205; SNG Cop 1259; Klose p. 176, 21

Commentary: scarce; brown patina with bronze highlights

History: Telesphorus is assumed to have been a Celtic god in origin, who was taken to Anatolia by the Galatians in the 3rd century BC, where he would have become associated with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.

Article Number: 043-10-03-41652