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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 22330494, member: 72790&quot;]I am not an expert in Byzantine coinage, but a few observations. The Greek capital for Alpha is the same in both the Greek and Latin alphabet (A) but what looks to us as a V could be a vowel or consonant&nbsp; (our U or V) and if the officina letter is in Greek what looks like an A may be the Greek letter lambda with a Greek letter upsilon within it. The officina marking is sometimes cryptic to the average man-in-the-street but to mint officials, they&nbsp; could determine a great deal from it with respect to who and where the coin was minted. I suspect that is what it is, a local identifying combination for coins from that mint workshop in Constatinople.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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