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| Issuer | Epidaurus (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Epidaurus was the principal sanctuary city of Asklepios, and coins invoking the healing god from this mint carry unusual religious weight — this was not civic boosterism but an assertion of cultic primacy. Rival cities across the Greek world maintained Asklepios sanctuaries, but Epidaurus held the original, and its coins functioned partly as proof of that claim. The truncated legend, likely reading ΑΣΚΛΗΠ[ΙΟΥ] or a civic ethnic variant, is consistent with known die deterioration in the III#397 series.