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Message:: [QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3192662, member: 87200"]A camp gate type of Constantine, some silvering left. Under my avatar you will see the phrase IN HOC SIGNO VINCES - "In this sign thou shalt conquer." Here is a bit of background information (Wikipedia)... The historian bishop Eusebius of Caesaria states that Constantine was marching with his army (Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it is clearly not in the camp at Rome), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words "(ἐν) τούτῳ νίκα" ("In this, conquer"), a phrase often rendered into Latin as in hoc signo vinces ("in this sign, you will conquer"). At first, Constantine did not know the meaning of the apparition, but on the following night, he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign of the cross against his enemies. Eusebius then continues to describe the Labarum, the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign. The accounts by Lactantius and Eusebius, though not entirely consistent, have been connected to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge(312 AD), having merged into a popular notion of Constantine seeing the Chi-Rho sign on the evening before the battle... [ATTACH=full]824584[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]824585[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]