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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3533360, member: 75937"]<i>Post your examples of coins with interesting lettering or anything you feel is relevant.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>If you collect Roman provincial coins, you have undoubtedly noticed different ways of rendering the various letters, such as C for Σ, Є for E, V for Y, + for Φ, Ѡ for Ω, and so forth. You have probably also noted the tendency of some die-engravers to use ligatures, combining various letters, such as A and E to make Æ. Certain ligatures are fairly common: O+Y as Ȣ, A+V as Ꜹ, and a host of ligatures I can't represent here because there is no unicode for them, such as N+E, Ꜹ+Γ, A+P, and Ω+Ν.</p><p><br /></p><p>But this coin has some paleographic features I've never seen before. In Faustina's name (ΦAVCTEINA), phi is rendered as ·I· and T E is ligate:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938874[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the whole coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940547[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 22.7 mm, 6.54 g, 7 h.</p><p>Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 147-155.</p><p>Obv: ·I·AVCTEINA CEBACTH, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Hygieia, feeding serpent from patera, and Asklepios, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, standing facing one-another.</p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/" rel="nofollow">RPC (temp) 10453</a>; SNG Cop 560; Jurukova 84-87; Varbanov 3219; Moushmov 2521; Mionnet suppl. 2, 636.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of other examples struck with this same obverse die for comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938877[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Rauch, Auction 71, lot 276, 4/28/03</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938878[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Helios, Auction 7, lot 503, 12/12/11</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3533360, member: 75937"][I]Post your examples of coins with interesting lettering or anything you feel is relevant.[/I] If you collect Roman provincial coins, you have undoubtedly noticed different ways of rendering the various letters, such as C for Σ, Є for E, V for Y, + for Φ, Ѡ for Ω, and so forth. You have probably also noted the tendency of some die-engravers to use ligatures, combining various letters, such as A and E to make Æ. Certain ligatures are fairly common: O+Y as Ȣ, A+V as Ꜹ, and a host of ligatures I can't represent here because there is no unicode for them, such as N+E, Ꜹ+Γ, A+P, and Ω+Ν. But this coin has some paleographic features I've never seen before. In Faustina's name (ΦAVCTEINA), phi is rendered as ·I· and T E is ligate: [ATTACH=full]938874[/ATTACH] Here's the whole coin: [ATTACH=full]940547[/ATTACH] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman provincial Æ 22.7 mm, 6.54 g, 7 h. Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 147-155. Obv: ·I·AVCTEINA CEBACTH, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right. Rev: ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Hygieia, feeding serpent from patera, and Asklepios, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, standing facing one-another. Refs: [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10453/']RPC (temp) 10453[/URL]; SNG Cop 560; Jurukova 84-87; Varbanov 3219; Moushmov 2521; Mionnet suppl. 2, 636. Here are a couple of other examples struck with this same obverse die for comparison: [ATTACH=full]938877[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Rauch, Auction 71, lot 276, 4/28/03[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]938878[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Helios, Auction 7, lot 503, 12/12/11[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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