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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3195063, member: 82549&quot;]Evidence of what? That it was meant to reflect the Christian beliefs of an individual celator? If it was an official attempt to promote Christianity, then it would most likely have been on all the coins, like the labarum on some of the Fel Temp types.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Celebrating . . . &quot; was probably a poor choice a words. A better way to state it is that they were added by a celator who, post edict of Milan and the official toleration, now felt free to include Christian symbols in his repertoire of control marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you are correct that this is just speculation. It could have been simply a random symbol, but the timing--the fact that there were no crosses before the Edict, but they appear shortly thereafter--suggests that they had some connection to the personal beliefs of the celator. Keep in mind that celators (die engravers) were slaves, albeit well-treated ones, and Christianity initially flourished among slaves and the poor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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