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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 363941, member: 10613&quot;]<font size="3">Here is a coin celebrating Rome as the eternal city.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Constantine I</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">A.D. 320 </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">20x19mm 3.0gm </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Obv. CONSTA-NTINVS AVG laur. helmet, cuir. </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Rev. ROMAE AETERNAE [To everlasting Rome] Roma std. r., shield in lap inscribed X/V [fifteen yearly vows (quindecennalia)]</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">in ex. R eros (in Greek) Q </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">RIC VII Rome 194 r3 </font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">Part of this mint mark is a cryptogram, and is Greek for eros, which in Latin is amor. Amor and Roma are palindromes-- they read the same backward or forward. Amor was the secret name of Rome. This may have been an attempt by the pagan aristocracy of Rome to use the old religion of mystery and romance to confront the pro-Christian policies of Constantine.</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"> The first letter in this mintmark is the Latin letter “R”, for Rome. The next symbol is a ligature, which consists of two Greek letters epsilon and rho, and then an upward sweep which transforms the ligature into the Greek letter omega. What looks like a “C’ is actually the Greek letter sigma. The last letter is the Latin “Q’, which is the officina. The Greek cryptogram section reads epsilon rho omega sigma or Eros.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">The temples of Venus and Roma were also adjacent to each other in Rome.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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