Thracia, Serdica, Caracalla Ruzicka 245
Caracalla AD 198-217
AE 30, 16.6g
obv. AYT KM AYR CEYH - ANTWNEINOC
bust, draped, laureate, r.
rev. OYLPIAC - CERDIKAC
Asklepios, half-draped, standing frontal, feeding with r. hand snake coiling around rod set on ground left
Ruzicka 245 (attribution by Curtis Clay)
very rare, EF

Serdica, today Sofia/Bulgaria. Ulpias was a venerating name of the city in honour of its founder Ulpius Trajan


Contributed by Hans-Joachim, 2006.