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The Greek letters kappa-rho with an abbreviation stroke at bottom, for Κρόνος(Krónos), the Greek equivalent to the Roman god Saturn. The cross at top was added later, to Christianize the symbol of a pagan god.[1]
1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 74:
If thou wilt turne ♄ into ♃ make plates of ♄, ſtrow them with Salt Armoniack, cement, and melt them, as aboveſaid, ſo will all the blackneſſe, and darkneſſe bee taken away from the Lead, and it will be in whiteneſſe like fair Engliſh Tin.