AN AMAZING TIED FINEST PCGS MS65 1776 IG 6 SOL SWITZERLAND GENEVA PROOF-LIKE IHS

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A STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL PROOF-LIKE QUALITY 1776 IG 6 SOL PIECE !!
TIED FINEST AT PCGS !!
PCGS HAS ONLY GRADED 3 TOTAL, 1 @MS64 AND, 2@MS65, INCLUDING THIS SUPERB SPECIMEN !
RADIANT
"
IHS
"
(JESUS, SAVIOR OF MEN)
"U.S.A. FREEDOM DATE" aka "MAGIC DATE"
"1776"
A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED & HISTORIC PIECE OF NUMISMATIC ART AT ITS FINEST !
PCGS CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
PCGS #
390515.65/34995680
Date, mintmark
1776 IG
Denomination
6 Sol
Country
Sw-Geneva
Grade
MS65
Holder Type
PCGS Gold Shield
Population
2
Pop Higher
0
IHS
"In the Latin-speaking Christianity of medieval Western Europe (and also among many Catholics and Protestants today), the most common Christogram is "
IHS
" derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus,
iota-eta-sigma
or ΙΗΣ. Here the Greek letter
eta
was transliterated as the letter
H
in the Latin-speaking West (Greek
eta
and Latin-alphabet
H
had the same visual appearance and shared a common historical origin), while the Greek letter
sigma
was either transliterated as the Latin
S
(since these letters of the two alphabets wrote the same sound).
"IHS" is sometimes interpreted as meaning
Iesus Hominum Salvator
("Jesus, Savior of men," in Latin), or connected with
In Hoc Signo
. Some uses have even been created for the English language, where "IHS" is interpreted as an abbreviation of "I Have Suffered" or "In His Service." Such interpretations are known as backronyms. Its use in the West originated with St. Bernardine of Siena, a thirteenth century priest who popularized the use of the three letters on the background of a blazing sun to displace both popular pagan symbols and seals of political factions like the Guelphs and Ghibellines in public spaces."
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