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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4287135, member: 19463"]A good Catholic coin was issued by the pagan usurper Magnentius in opposition to the emperor Constantius II who was brought up Arian by his tutor hired by his father Constantine the Great. Magnentius was appealing to the Romans who believed that a pagan was better than a heretic (a common belief then). The significant point on the coin is the alpha and omega flanking the large chi-rho. Arians did not believe that Christ was god from the beginning but had been created later so the alpha was decidedly Catholic/orthodox reminding people that the emperor was not one of them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091223[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4287135, member: 19463"]A good Catholic coin was issued by the pagan usurper Magnentius in opposition to the emperor Constantius II who was brought up Arian by his tutor hired by his father Constantine the Great. Magnentius was appealing to the Romans who believed that a pagan was better than a heretic (a common belief then). The significant point on the coin is the alpha and omega flanking the large chi-rho. Arians did not believe that Christ was god from the beginning but had been created later so the alpha was decidedly Catholic/orthodox reminding people that the emperor was not one of them. [ATTACH=full]1091223[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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