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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3014892, member: 44316&quot;]When I first saw this I didn&#039;t answer because I was uncertain about the &quot;cross&quot;. I am confident the coin is authentic. I personally think the ones on coins of Ticinum like the one below and on my page:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Christian/ChristianTable1.html#1.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Christian/ChristianTable1.html#1.1" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Christian/ChristianTable1.html#1.1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>are intentional Christian crosses. But, I cannot say <b>whose</b> intention. Relatively few coins of Ticinum have them and it is the only mint to issue them (other than the OP coin.)&nbsp; I know experts who think the symbol is not a Christian cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]748403[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constantine, 307-337</p><p>Struck 316</p><p>at Ticinum with mintmark PT</p><p>21-19 mm, 2.81 grams, 12:00</p><p>mintmark: PT</p><p>RIC Ticinum 45, page 366, plate 9</p><p><b>cross</b> in field left, star in field right</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if they were &quot;Christian&quot; that would not be the same as &quot;authorized by Constantine himself.&quot; However, as the OP coin and similar coins show, those issues had many control marks (three on the OP coin, two on mine), selected by someone somehow. I think there was someone in the chain of command at Ticinum who used a Christian symbol on purpose. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, back to the OP coin. Maybe someone of Christian inclination snuck in a cross as one of the control marks. Or, maybe to them it was just another shape as opposed to intentionally Christian. Or, maybe it is just a &quot;bad X.&quot;&nbsp; I don&#039;t think we can know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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