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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1212230, member: 19463&quot;]A true True Cross collection has to include a coin of Helena who was credited with discovering it:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" rel="nofollow"></a>I always liked the old saying to the effect that if all the pieces of the &#039;True Cross&#039; circulating during the Middle Ages had been gathered together in one place, there would have been enough wood to rebuild Noah&#039;s Ark.&nbsp; I have no idea what Helena found but assume that whatever it was Khousrau stole it and Heraclius recovered it.&nbsp; Khoushrau II&#039;s other claim to fame was how he died.&nbsp; One story was that his son Kavadh II killed him along with his 18 other sons.&nbsp; I guess we now need another Sasanian coin (Kavadh II), a Byzantine (Heraclius) and a Roman (Helena).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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