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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Odessos| > RP65145
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Odessos, Moesia Inferior
|Odessos|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Odessos,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, The ancients did not all agree on the attributes of Serapis. A passage in Tacitus affirms that many recognized in this god, Aesculapius, imputing healing to his intervention; some thought him identical with Osiris, the oldest deity of the Egyptians; others regarded him as Jupiter, possessing universal power; but by most he was believed to be the same as Pluto, the "gloomy" Dis Pater of the infernal regions. The general impression of the ancients seems to have been that by Serapis, was to be understood the beginning and foundation of things. Julian II consulted the oracle of Apollo for the purpose of learning whether Pluto and Serapis were different gods; and he received for an answer that Jupiter-Serapis and Pluto were one and the same divinity.

RP65145. Bronze pentassarion, Varbanov I 4467, AMNG I/II 2342, VF, nice green patina, Odessos (Varna, Bulgaria) mint, weight 11.419g, maximum diameter 27.5mm, die axis 180o, obverse AYT K M, ANTΩNIOC ΓOPΔIANOC, confronted busts of Gordian on left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, seen from behind; and Serapis on right, draped, wearing kalathos on head; reverse OΔHCCEITΩN, Athena standing left, helmeted, pouring libations from phaile in right, spear vertical behind in left, grounded shield at her side resting against her right leg, E (mark of value) upper left; SOLD











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