Cross potent

Upon the passage of the 1924 Schilling Act the cross potent was used as a national symbol of the Austrian First Republic, minted on the back of the Groschen coins.

In 1934 it became the emblem of the Federal State of Austria, adopted from the ruling Fatherland's Front, the Catholic authoritarian traditionalist organisation led by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.

A reference to the Jerusalem Cross, it served as a counter-symbol to both the Nazi swastika and the communist hammer and sickle, as the Fatherland Front was both anti-Nazi and anti-Communist.

The symbol was also adopted by the Russian far-right People's National Party and the obscure Cambodian militia MONATIO in the 1970s.

It was also used as a symbol for independence by the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico during the first half of the 20th century, an organization was a Roman Catholic movement that was traditionalist, anti-communist, anti-American and anti-imperialist and sought to liberate the archipelago of Puerto Rico from American control through armed struggle.

It is currently used in the coats of arms of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia, and of the Wingolf Christian student fraternities in Germany, Austria and Estonia.