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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 7645242, member: 82322&quot;]Please no private messages for things anyone could answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no clue about the crescent.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>How should we approach the question regarding the meaning of the crescent?</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick acsearch.info query yields <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2995074" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2995074" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>.&nbsp; The cataloger, probably Tom or Alfred, writes &quot;This coin type was previously attributed to an uncertain Cilician mint. Göktürk, in &#039;Small coins from Cilicia and surroundings&#039; reattributes it to the town of Laranda in Lykaonia.&nbsp; That seems promising....</p><p><br /></p><p>Always look for the auction entries with the lots of text.&nbsp; (If anyone from [USER=105839]@acsearch.info[/USER] is here, it would be great if &quot;longest description&quot; could be included as a sort order.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Shove that title into a search engine and <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_954" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_954" rel="nofollow">the paper</a> pops out.&nbsp; Unfortunately I the official version seems to lack plates.&nbsp; I found another example on an unfamiliar web site that included plates (<a href="https://www.docdroid.net/OUuplkc/13735-pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.docdroid.net/OUuplkc/13735-pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Göktürk&#039;s whole paper seems to just be a catalog with plates with no discussion or rationale.&nbsp; He sees a lambda, but I can&#039;t tell from his catalog if he puts these on Laranda because someone else did, because that is where he found examples, or because of the lambda.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the other examples in acsearch there seem to be other letters, and it isn&#039;t clear if the &quot;lambda&quot; in the photographs is an actual lambda or another crescent!</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point dig into his bibliography or see if he wrote more on the subject elsewhere.&nbsp; The ANS library creates a card catalog entry for every article, not just every book.&nbsp; <a href="https://donum.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&amp;q=G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://donum.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&amp;q=G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk" rel="nofollow">Search for his name</a>.&nbsp; Six hits, none seemed relevant.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you figure it out, let me know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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