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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8184558, member: 128351&quot;]J.G.Milne (<i>NC </i>7.3/4 (1947)) thinks this obverse die is for Valerian (obv. legend E, p.105).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431201[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>in fact one can read <b>IMPCAERASLLOVNAHIAC</b></p><p>it is a colonial coinage, supposed to be Latin, not Greek, so the letters Λ are A.</p><p><br /></p><p>the engraver is of course illiterate, and sometimes writes from left to right, sometimes from right to left.</p><p><b>IMP </b>is OK. <b>CAERAS</b> is CAESAR. The S must be counted two times : <b>SLLOV</b> is VOLVS from right to left. For the rest I think it the <b>H</b> stands for II, so I read <b>NAI</b> (for IAN) and <b>IIAC</b> for VAG : AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>This might seem a bit complex and concordist, but if we admit the celators inverted groups of letters on a regular basis (like on the reverse ANTIO-CHI OCL I or OCL A for COL(onia) A(ugusta)) this much blundered obv. legend corresponds to *IMP CAESAR VOLVSIAN AVG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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