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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1974210, member: 56859&quot;]At the moment I&#039;m favoring it as numbers, perhaps indicating denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://phoenicia.org/imgs/phoenumbering.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://phoenicia.org/imgs/phoenumbering.jpg" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s some information on their numbering system</a>.&nbsp; The chart is difficult to understand.&nbsp; It appears that 20 can be indicated with an N or an O.&nbsp; Multiples of 20 are depicted (in that chart) as multiples of the letter but I don&#039;t see any examples of mixing the two.&nbsp; Is the N-O a number?&nbsp; Is it 40?&nbsp; Is it something else altogether, like a mint mark or engraver&#039;s initials?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the letters on your coins... I&#039;m not sure what to make of the F.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t look much like any of the characters I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; By the time these coins were issued the written Phoenician language may have appeared very different from the examples found online, which are mostly early alphabets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still my best guess is that they are denomination marks.&nbsp; What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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