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A comment on Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory.

Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by sceptically on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:00PM (#33072107)
I don't get it. Please explain. Is it the weird dollar sign on the stone?
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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by Tao3300 on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:36PM (#33072558)
That's an IHS with the letters imposed on one another. It's short for 'ihsous', Greek for Jesus.
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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by wheels on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:01PM (#33072863)
Fun fact: the actual "dollar" sign is actually a P and an S superimposed, as it's actually a symbol for "peso".
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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by ahazred8ta on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:54PM (#33073554)
The superimposed IHS: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/ihs-ancient-medieval-chri...

And actually the dollar sign started out as two pillars with ribbon banners wrapped around them in an S shape, not as a P-S.

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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by mywittyname on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:42PM (#33072634)
Given the context, I think that says "IHS". There are a variety of IHS symbols, some can be confused as a dollar sign.

https://cemeteries.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/ihs/

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