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IHS This symbol is often seen emblazoned on crosses. Often the letters are overlaid on each other, which, curiously, looks a lot like a dollar sign. Popular belief says that IHS (or sometimes IHC) is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase in hoc signo, which is a shortened version of a banner with the words in hoc signo vinces (“in this sign you will conquer”), seen in a vision by the Emperor Constantine before he went into battle—a good story, but not the origin of IHS. Another puts the origin as an abbreviation of the Latin phrase Iesus Hominum Salvator, (“Jesus, Savior of Men”)—another good story, but also not the origin. In fact, the origin is rather pedestrian. IHS or IHC (derived from the lower-case Greek letters for iota, eta, and sigma) is an abbreviation of Jesus’s name in Greek, Ihsus, Ihsoys or Ihcu

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