Silver coin dedicated to Greek culture, Hippocrates of Kos, the Physician, 2013. Ag 925, weight 34.1g, diametre 40mm. Μintage 1,000 items in Proof Quality.
The obverse features a portrait of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), while the reverse features Asclepius healing patients. Hippocrates of Kos is regarded as the father of Western medicine for basing the art of healing on rational principles and liberating it from divine causality and superstition. Continue reading