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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1975862, member: 56859&quot;]In learning a bit more about the Phoenician alphabet(s) and translation, the reverse makes more sense now.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;O&#039;, &#039;ain, is a glottal consonant.&nbsp; In the numismatic references it is represented by an apostrophe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently I was mistaken regarding the identity of a couple of characters.&nbsp; Reading left to right, the translation is:</p><p><br /></p><p>OZBOLMLKZBL :: &#039;zb&#039;l&nbsp; mlk&nbsp; gbl</p><p><br /></p><p>Add vowels as it pleases you (I don&#039;t know what if any rules there were for sounding the vowels) =&nbsp; Uzbaal&nbsp; Malek&nbsp; Gebal </p><p><br /></p><p>Uzbaal = name of the issuing king</p><p>Malek = king</p><p>Gebal = Phoenician name of Byblos</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the question of the obverse characters, I looked at Byblos coins in various coin archives .&nbsp; I think, but am not sure, that the obverse characters are an abbreviation of the issuing king&#039;s name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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