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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4624390, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks for uploading both of these.</p><p>As a kid, I had an example of the Arcadius of Alexandria.&nbsp; I&#039;d really like to find a replacement, some day, because of the convergence of the mint and the altered Chi-Rho sign.</p><p>As you cogently demonstrate, other mints used this variant, which really was nothing more than that, relative to the more common &quot;PX&quot; version.&nbsp; But the Alexandria mint still has to evoke the fact --however anecdotally-- that the Coptic Christians (largely based in Alexandria) adopted /adapted the Egyptian ankh as a variant cross form, along the lines of the Tau Cross, etc.&nbsp; Even in Pharohnic times, the ankh could connote something as abstract as &quot;life;&quot; a pretty theologically-neutral concept.&nbsp; (Here&#039;s the Wiki article, which is, Snort, surprisingly good: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh#Christianity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh#Christianity" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh#Christianity</a>)</p><p>...Didn&#039;t find that out until my example was long gone!&nbsp; But it&#039;s hard not to suspect that in Alexandria, the locals would have made the connection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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