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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4508032, member: 19463&quot;]How is M wrong?&nbsp; The alphabet started the &#039;tens digit&#039; series with I for ten, K for twenty and lambda for thirty so the next letter is M for 40.&nbsp; It continues as expected through the alphabet until you get to 90 when the archaic letter qoppa was used even though that the &#039;modern&#039; (post archaic) alphabet had dropped that letter except as a numeral and the city abbreviation Q for Corinth.&nbsp; I am disturbed by the chart you posted including as &#039;Byzantine&#039; the lower case modern letter forms which do not appear on coins of the period.&nbsp; The 40 numeral M does also appear as a rounded lower case looking <font size="6">m</font> but it never looks anything like what the show in that chart. Worse is the letter forms they show for 90&nbsp; which I really would read as six in the Latin series used in the dating legends.&nbsp; The chart was not made by a coin person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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