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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24750395, member: 128351&quot;]Thanks, I didn&#039;t know these coins. The only explanation I see is because it&#039;s a coin minted in Emesa (Homs, Syria) where people didn&#039;t speak Latin. &quot;COS I&quot; is against all rules of Latin numeration and Latin epigraphy, if the person has been consul only once, it&#039;s just COS. See Pope Francis : when journalists began to mention him as Francis I, he issued a statement saying his pope name wasn&#039;t Francis 1st but just Francis. </p><p>But in Greek it is possible: there is an inscription in Milet with &quot;[δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσία]ς̣ τὸ α̣ʹ&quot; (Milet. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899,VI,3 1103). The die-cutter spoke Greek and composed his Latin inscription like a Greek one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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