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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1652762, member: 19463"]<span style="color: #000000"><i>The Chi-Rho symbol was also used by pagan Greek scribes to mark, in the margin, a particularly valuable or relevant passage; the combined letters Chi and Rho standing for chrēston, meaning "good." Some coins of Ptolemy III Euergetes (r. 246–222 BC) were marked with a Chi-Rho.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho</a></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Good , Guy. Ill show a mentioned Ptolemaic Chi-Rho and ask your interpretation on these two coins bearing the name of Constantius II. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span>[ATTACH]241314.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]241315.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]241316.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1652762, member: 19463"][COLOR=#000000][I]The Chi-Rho symbol was also used by pagan Greek scribes to mark, in the margin, a particularly valuable or relevant passage; the combined letters Chi and Rho standing for chrēston, meaning "good." Some coins of Ptolemy III Euergetes (r. 246–222 BC) were marked with a Chi-Rho. [/I] [/COLOR] [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho[/URL] [COLOR=#000000] Good , Guy. Ill show a mentioned Ptolemaic Chi-Rho and ask your interpretation on these two coins bearing the name of Constantius II. [/COLOR][ATTACH]241314.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]241315.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]241316.vB[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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