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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7822513, member: 115171&quot;]In a recent post on Crusader coins, which was just augmented by the excellent post by [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER],&nbsp; I posted 5 gros tournois of St Louis, Tripoli, Naples, and Cyprus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lined up in a row, the cross on the reverse of each of those coins impressed me as a consistent design element, and as a bold assertion of the Christian religion by rulers very conscious of the Muslim world against which they struggled.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hi-crusader-coins……….384559/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hi-crusader-coins……….384559/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hi-crusader-coins……….384559/</a></p><p>This contemporary gros from Rome is therefore remarkable to me in its use of non-Christian imagery.&nbsp; The pagan Goddess Roma whose orb is not surmounted by a cross to form a globus cruciger, the lion which in this context is probably not the lion of Judah, the citation of the SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMA which is a pre-Christian formulation, and ROMA CAP(UT) MUNDI, which to my mind is an assertion of secular power, not religious or ecclesiastical pre-eminence.&nbsp; Aside from the tiny perfunctory&nbsp; crosses which precede the obverse and reverse legends, this could be a pagan coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344289[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1344293[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Rome, Grosso, 1256-1265 AD.&nbsp; &nbsp; This coin iconographically would seem to fit the Renaissance better than the era in which it was struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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