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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1505613, member: 38849&quot;]Wish I could take credit for translating this Latin, but a catalog beat me to it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;biw=800&amp;bih=460&amp;q=vivi+da+pax+christi+servet+nos+tempore+tristi&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=KnMgUNG5GKim6gGdroHoCA&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CEUQgwM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;biw=800&amp;bih=460&amp;q=vivi+da+pax+christi+servet+nos+tempore+tristi&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=KnMgUNG5GKim6gGdroHoCA&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CEUQgwM" rel="nofollow"><b>vivida pax christi servet nos tempore tristi</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;May the peace of the living Christ preserve us in these sad times&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Why some letters are capitalized in the middle of words:</p><p><br /></p><p>Chronogram is a phrase of which the roman-numeral letters&nbsp; (C,D,I,L,M,V,X) express a date when added together. (e.g. LorD haVe&nbsp; MerCIe Vpon Vs = 50+500+5+1000+100+1+5+5=1666). The order was&nbsp; irrelevant, the sequence IV stood for 1+5=6 and not for 4. On coins, the&nbsp; numerals are indicated in exaggerated capital Roman letters within the&nbsp; legend. </p><p>Chronograms were particularly popular in the Baroque Age although&nbsp; counting the numerals was tiresomeone and one had to struggle through&nbsp; obscure statements in scholars&#039; Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p>==============</p><p><b>City of Nuremberg.&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 ducats 1631</b>,&nbsp;&nbsp; off-metal strike of the taler.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ø 42 mm</p><p>&nbsp;Lettered edge with chronogram :&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>VIVID</b>A PA<b>X C</b>HR<b>I</b>ST<b>I</b> SER<b>V</b>ET NOS TE<b>M</b>P=ORE TR<b>I</b>ST<b>I</b> </p><p>(&quot;May the peace of the living Christ preserve us in these sad times&quot; during the Thirty Years&#039; War.) </p><p>Enlarged letters :&nbsp;&nbsp; VIVID XC I I V M I I&nbsp; =&nbsp; MDCVVVIIIIII&nbsp; =&nbsp; 1000+500+100+3x5+6x1 = 1631 </p><p><br /></p><p>Source:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coingallery.de/Varia/_varia_2_E.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingallery.de/Varia/_varia_2_E.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coingallery.de/Varia/_varia_2_E.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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