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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 8080516, member: 120820"]I'm a bit late to the party here, but only just noticed since someone just bumped the thread. The "cross" on that rome coin is certainly meant to be the letter "X", but it's conceivable that some naughty Christian engraver chose to switch the orientation as opposed to it just being an accident. We will never know. That said, I'm not sure that "X" was any less a Christian mark than "+" at the time. The mintmark sequence here at Rome, at this time, was RP R-F followed by this RP R-F with X under the R. These field marks are sometimes easy to guess at, othertimes not (I'm guessing a roman looking at them would probably agree). The R-F here, being from Rome, is probably "Roma Felix" (happy Rome), and the "X" may well be a reference to Constantine's decennalia that year (315 AD).[/QUOTE]