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<p>[QUOTE="Gary Waddingham, post: 4286191, member: 73648"]This coin (struck between 330 and 354) shows us the genius of the Roman People (hence Pop Romanvs) and (we think) the Milvian Bridge, perhaps the most famous bridge in history. Most associate it with Constantine the Great's Christian vision but that actually took place elsewhere. What he saw has been debated but according to Eusebius who actually talked to Constantine it was a cross with the Greek inscription "Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα" which in Latin is the more familiar "in hoc signo vinces" or "in this sign conquer." One might explain the cross as a sun dog but the Greek lettering is much tricker. At any rate, the bridge is where the co-emperor Maxentius whom Constantine was fighting, and his forces were defeated mostly by drowning. His body was fished out of the Tiber, beheaded and paraded throughout the city. Thus the bridge is a marker of Constantine's victory rather than his conversion (if the vision can indeed be called that) but said victory was ascribed to the intercession of Christ.[ATTACH=full]1090928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gary Waddingham, post: 4286191, member: 73648"]This coin (struck between 330 and 354) shows us the genius of the Roman People (hence Pop Romanvs) and (we think) the Milvian Bridge, perhaps the most famous bridge in history. Most associate it with Constantine the Great's Christian vision but that actually took place elsewhere. What he saw has been debated but according to Eusebius who actually talked to Constantine it was a cross with the Greek inscription "Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα" which in Latin is the more familiar "in hoc signo vinces" or "in this sign conquer." One might explain the cross as a sun dog but the Greek lettering is much tricker. At any rate, the bridge is where the co-emperor Maxentius whom Constantine was fighting, and his forces were defeated mostly by drowning. His body was fished out of the Tiber, beheaded and paraded throughout the city. Thus the bridge is a marker of Constantine's victory rather than his conversion (if the vision can indeed be called that) but said victory was ascribed to the intercession of Christ.[ATTACH=full]1090928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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