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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3160706, member: 19463&quot;]You Greek alphabet chart is missing the sixth letter S or Ϛ which was 6 and Q which was 90.&nbsp; Those letters were used in archaic Greek but fell out of use by the first century except as numerals.&nbsp; Note we now have F and Q in proper place but modern Greek lacks those letters.&nbsp; As stated in post #1 above, the ΕΔ additive (5+4=9) was instrumental in dating these coins to the pagan era when the unlucky Θ was not used.&nbsp; When Christianity came, the superstition left and we find Θ for officina 9.&nbsp; Old books attributed these coins to Julian II but that could not be because Julian never used ΕΔ for 9.&nbsp; This explains why these coins are not in RIC.&nbsp; When RIC volume VI was written, standard wisdom placed them in the future volume VIII but by the time VIII was prepared, they knew the coins belonged in VI.&nbsp; Because they were not in RIC, copycat books failed to list them either.&nbsp; David Vagi did a correct listing for the coins in his two volume book in 1999 but there are still sellers that don&#039;t know what to do with them since they are not in RIC. </p><p><br /></p><p>I note that online texts in modern Greek use Arabic numerals:</p><p><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1" rel="nofollow">https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ελλάδα</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone know when old Greek numbers were abandoned?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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