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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2011174, member: 42773&quot;]I knew you would steer me in the right direction, thank you! I did not see + on this coin - I merely copied Varbanov&#039;s rendition of the inscription. Evidently he uses the symbol in place of Φ precisely because of the way it appears, which is confusing. If we know it&#039;s phi, why not just write Φ? If he&#039;s notating phi according to how it looks on the coin, why does he then notate upsilon as Y, instead of V? - as it actually appears on the coins, and as it actually appears so often in the provincial Roman/Greek mishmash alphabet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t expect any real answer to this, just thinking out loud, but it does clarify a quirk in Varbanov&#039;s volumes that&#039;s mystified me from time to time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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