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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 25347938, member: 43872&quot;]No expert on ancient gold, but I do know a little about ancient Greek script.&nbsp; It is possible the inscription is not EV but epsilon upsilon.&nbsp; We think of an upsilon as more like a Y, with a longer stem, but handwriting varies with the centuries, and at times the stem is short.&nbsp; Compare it with the U in ANASTASIUS just above it, which is Latin but may have influenced the Greek.&nbsp; If this is the case, it could possibly be EU, which is Greek for &quot;good&quot; (used as a prefix in many English words--eulogy, euphemism, etc).&nbsp; Might it then be a merchant&#039;s mark who has weighed and tested the gold and found it acceptable?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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