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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8332390, member: 110350"]I've never seen Serapis portrayed in that manner either, which doesn't mean it can't have been intended to represent him, especially outside Egypt. Anyway, there's no doubt about this being Serapis:</p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Trier [Mairat] or Cologne Mint, 265-268 AD. [Mairat pp. 61, 64: 266-267 AD.] Obv. Radiate & draped bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG / Rev. Serapis, crowned and draped, standing left, raising right hand and holding transverse sceptre in left hand; in background, prow of galley right, SERAPI COMITI AVG. RIC V-1 329, RSC IV 358, Sear RCV III 10992 (ill. p. 364), Mairat 362 (pp. 532-533) & Pls 143-144 [Jerome Mairat, <i>The Coinage of the Gallic Empire</i> (Trinity, Oxford, 2014), available at <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis" rel="nofollow">https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis</a> ]. 21 mm., 3.80 g. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/postumus-serapis-jpg-jpg.1451876/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another coin of Postumus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8332390, member: 110350"]I've never seen Serapis portrayed in that manner either, which doesn't mean it can't have been intended to represent him, especially outside Egypt. Anyway, there's no doubt about this being Serapis: Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Trier [Mairat] or Cologne Mint, 265-268 AD. [Mairat pp. 61, 64: 266-267 AD.] Obv. Radiate & draped bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG / Rev. Serapis, crowned and draped, standing left, raising right hand and holding transverse sceptre in left hand; in background, prow of galley right, SERAPI COMITI AVG. RIC V-1 329, RSC IV 358, Sear RCV III 10992 (ill. p. 364), Mairat 362 (pp. 532-533) & Pls 143-144 [Jerome Mairat, [I]The Coinage of the Gallic Empire[/I] (Trinity, Oxford, 2014), available at [URL]https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis[/URL] ]. 21 mm., 3.80 g. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/postumus-serapis-jpg-jpg.1451876/[/IMG] Next, another coin of Postumus.[/QUOTE]
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