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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2862863, member: 88829&quot;]Thanks for the comment, David.&nbsp; However, I think you put a different spin on my note than was intended.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think anyone has disputed that the letters are a marker for the mint at Ephesus.&nbsp; I must confess that I do not own RIC II original edition, but when I wrote my comments I had access to an online version of the original volume.&nbsp; Now I can&#039;t get back to it or I could give a good reference.&nbsp; But as I recall the comment, the point at question focused on whether the exergual symbol resembling EPE (with the last two letters ligatured) was composed of the initial letters of the name &quot;Ephesus.&quot;&nbsp; If you look carefully in the new edition of vol 2 (which I DO have), that is still left an open question.&nbsp; Two of the exergual symbols used are introduced in V2-1 with the Greek equivalent letters in parentheses.&nbsp; Not so for this symbol.&nbsp; It is left uninterpreted.&nbsp; But that has no bearing on whether or not it is a mint mark for Ephesus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem, I think, comes down to this: the name of the city would normally have been rendered in Greek letters.&nbsp; The outer letters in the symbol will conform to Greek uncial epsilon.&nbsp; But the middle letter is not properly formed for a Greek Phi, which is the right letter for &quot;Ephesus.&quot;&nbsp; Instead, the correspondence (in my opinion) may be found by assuming use of the Latin alphabet.&nbsp; I suspect that the ligatured PE combination represents PH-E giving the Latin equivalent EPHE.&nbsp; However, that too is nothing more than a conjecture, and not the sort of thing that writers of references record as &quot;facts.&quot;&nbsp; So I merely noted that the subject has had some scholarly consideration (in RIC 2 early) and left it at that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks too for the affirmation of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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