ANCIENT COIN SHOWING CHRIST ON THE CROSS

Ancient Coin showing Christ on the cross, in human form on the front, in snake form on the reverse. Gnostics believed that Jesus Christ should be represented as a snake..

in the context that the serpent in the garden of Eden was the giver of illumination and knowledge, instead of the now orthodox view that the serpent is Satan. Crosses and serpents were once equated with pagan, or indo-european (aryan), sun mythology... globally.