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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3281938, member: 96635&quot;]It has to do with dialect, if you look on your coin you will see the &quot;T&quot; has 2 hooks at the side. That &quot;T&quot; is not a real T, it is this letter &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg/13px-Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>&quot; also called Σαμπί. It is pronounced like a double S, so ME<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg/13px-Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />A is pronounced as MESSA. In other words, the city name did not change.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the letter &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg/13px-Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>&quot; is from a quite archaic dialect, I must imagine that when time progressed it got replaced by the widely used common letter sigma &quot;Σ&quot; over time. The other way around would be very weird, or who knows they wanted to show they are autonomously like that, using their own dialect on coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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