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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Postumus, post: 4307105, member: 74209&quot;]While working on photographing and up dating descriptions I became curious about the letting used on some&nbsp; Ca. 490-475 BC, Didrachm rider/man-headed bull.&nbsp; On the man-headed bull side most all the coins have a very simple set 4 or 5&nbsp; letters in various positions around the coin [above bull, split above and in front of bull, below] simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My question is about the very first letter;&nbsp; which is followed in Greek letters with an E L A, and sometimes with a sigma.&nbsp; In some case the first letter is clearly a gamma (makes sense).&nbsp; However, there are many coins that start with what the references call a &quot;C&quot; that looks like a smooth crescent or an angular crescent.&nbsp; I will try to attach a couple of example photos, but that fails, there are many examples on Wildwinds and Acsearch.</p><p>The question?&nbsp; I may be totally missing something but there is no &quot;C&quot; shaped Greek letter.&nbsp; The use of gamma along with the above letters clearly identifies the city so why the &quot;C&quot;, or is it a &quot;C&quot; as sited in the references [i.e. Jenkins]</p><p><br /></p><p>Carpe Diem[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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