Description: Thessaly, Larissa, 400 - 344 BC. Head of nymph Larissa left / ΛAPI; laureate and bearded head of Asklepios right, serpent before.

Diameter: AE15 mm

Weight: 4,44 g

Grade: VF/gF

Attribution: Rogers 305; SNG Cop 146

Commentary: rare; bronze-brown patina, some reddish patches, good details

History: The famous Hippocratic Oath, sworn by medical doctors for two thousand years, begins with an invocation to Apollo the physician, Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea and "the other gods and goddesses".

Article Number: 031-02-08-41652