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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 2499969, member: 10613&quot;]here&#039;s another ROMAE AETERNAE with the Eros cryptogram</p><p><br /></p><p>Licinius I</p><p>A.D. 320</p><p>20mm 3.2gm</p><p>IMP LI-CINIVS AVG; helmeted and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>ROMAE AETERNAE; Roma std. r., shield in lap inscribed X/V</p><p>in ex. R eros (in Greek) S</p><p>RIC VII Rome 196</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530293[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“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. The first letter in this mintmark is the Latin letter “R”, for Roma. 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 officina. The Greek cryptogram section reads epsilon rho omega sigma or Eros.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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