Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kavax, post: 7844609, member: 107774&quot;]I&#039;m pretty sure that the oldest one is the one posted by [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER] : a tetradrachm of Syracuse with legend ΣΥΡΑϘΟΣΙΟΝ&nbsp; circa 510 500 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350104[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>The Ϙ comes from the corinthian alphabet (Syracuse was a colony of Corinth). The Q disappears soon after 480BC </p><p><br /></p><p>The Omicron as a long vowel is definitly replaced by the Ω at the end of the 5th century (cf the four last reverse die of Tudeer&#039;s period I - Only a single Boehringer die dated c. 420 BC already has an Omega)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The reform (long o and ε replaced by ω and η) officially took place in Athens in 403 BC and extended to all of Greece in the 4th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>so ΣΥΡΑϘΟΣΙΟΝ definitly means &quot;of the Syracusans&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in