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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7959681, member: 110504"]Thanks, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] and everyone else, for another terrific, enlightening thread.</p><p>...Um, leading me to a point of importunity.</p><p>I collected LRBs mainly as a kid, in the '70's (with a 1974 Sear to prove it), before mostly defecting to medieval. But one I really miss is a small AE of Arcadius, from Alexandria, with one of those cruciform chi-rho signs in the reverse field.</p><p>Any chance of anyone alerting me to one, whether yours or elsewhere? ...For instance, in a 'conversation'?</p><p>I find the combination of the mint and the cross-rho (Thanks, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]) really compelling. The early Coptic Christians appropriated the Ankh (Egyptian symbol of life, used continuously from Pharaonic times to late Antiquity) as a Christian symbol. Not by accident, since the Coptic language is a direct descendant of Pharaonic Egyptian.</p><p>(From Wiki: "Crux ansata signs on a piece of cloth, 4th to 5th century AD": )</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379939[/ATTACH]</p><p>I'm not suggesting that when the cross-rho was adopted by late Roman mints across the Roman Empire, it was with that particular connotation. Only that it's hard to imagine that the similarity would have been lost on a Copt in Alexandria.</p><p>...Sorry for this, but, Honest, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone, for your respective patience and (mmmMaybe) help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7959681, member: 110504"]Thanks, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] and everyone else, for another terrific, enlightening thread. ...Um, leading me to a point of importunity. I collected LRBs mainly as a kid, in the '70's (with a 1974 Sear to prove it), before mostly defecting to medieval. But one I really miss is a small AE of Arcadius, from Alexandria, with one of those cruciform chi-rho signs in the reverse field. Any chance of anyone alerting me to one, whether yours or elsewhere? ...For instance, in a 'conversation'? I find the combination of the mint and the cross-rho (Thanks, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]) really compelling. The early Coptic Christians appropriated the Ankh (Egyptian symbol of life, used continuously from Pharaonic times to late Antiquity) as a Christian symbol. Not by accident, since the Coptic language is a direct descendant of Pharaonic Egyptian. (From Wiki: "Crux ansata signs on a piece of cloth, 4th to 5th century AD": ) [ATTACH=full]1379939[/ATTACH] I'm not suggesting that when the cross-rho was adopted by late Roman mints across the Roman Empire, it was with that particular connotation. Only that it's hard to imagine that the similarity would have been lost on a Copt in Alexandria. ...Sorry for this, but, Honest, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone, for your respective patience and (mmmMaybe) help.[/QUOTE]
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