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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2412802, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ve never seen the meaning of XP on Ptolemaic coins explained, so it gets described as a monogram. These are simply the letters chi and rho in Greek - dozens of Greek names begin with chi and rho, so when we see them on Ptolemaic issues, they probably refer to a governor or minter. (I believe the monogram only appears on issues of Ptolemy III, but I&#039;m talking off the top of my head.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine did in fact adopt the letters as a Christogram on his labarum, simply because they are the first two letters of ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ. Constantine&#039;s Christogram is not connected in any way to earlier instances of the symbol - remember, it&#039;s just two Greek letters. The X is not a cross, as many think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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