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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2992273, member: 57495&quot;]Bill from CNG answered this question in an old CT thread :</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;McAlee argues that the ΔЄ is abbreviation for &quot;of the four Eparchies,&quot; with an eparchy being a subdivision of a province, of which Syria had four. The initials would indicate that the coinage was current in all four Eparchies, rather than merely in Antioch.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>We see the ΔЄ mark on some provincial issues of Laodicea as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]738554[/ATTACH]<b>ELAGABALUS</b></p><p>AE19. 6.36g, 19.1mm. SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare, 218 - 222 AD. SNG Cop 372. O: IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS, Radiate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder.&nbsp; R: LAVDICEON, Herakles and Dionysos wrestling: Herakles bearded on left, his club behind him; Dionysos on right, his thyrsus behind him; <b>ΔE</b> in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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