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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 3507970, member: 42773&quot;]Along the lines of running out of room for lettering, some of the most egregious examples can be found in the coinage of Marcianopolis, presumably because the name of the city is so long. Here&#039;s a typical example...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]930280[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>We read MAPKIANOΠ from 2 to 5 o&#039;clock, then jump to the lower left field for OΛI, then in the right field T and Ω are bisected by Concordia&#039;s drapery, and to finish the word we have N in exergue...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]930288[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This sort of thing confused the hell out of me when I first started studying Roman Provincial coins. With the Roman penchant for abbreviation one wonders why this sort thing happened. You could abbreviate the emperor&#039;s names, but evidently it wasn&#039;t kosher to abbreviate the city name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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