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<p>[QUOTE="Hrefn, post: 7665144, member: 115171"]Here is a gold Solidus of Thessalonika, a century and more before the spelling confusion on the coin in the original post. Theodosius II (402-450), with the celator in Thessalonika most likely a native Greek speaker. The Latin legend should read GLORIA ORBIS TERRARUM but he has ORVIS instead. For the workshop to make that mistake, the B/V shift must have occurred in Greek before 400 AD. Latin, to my knowledge, never loses the hard B, so a native Latin speaker probably could not have made this error. [ATTACH=full]1317342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hrefn, post: 7665144, member: 115171"]Here is a gold Solidus of Thessalonika, a century and more before the spelling confusion on the coin in the original post. Theodosius II (402-450), with the celator in Thessalonika most likely a native Greek speaker. The Latin legend should read GLORIA ORBIS TERRARUM but he has ORVIS instead. For the workshop to make that mistake, the B/V shift must have occurred in Greek before 400 AD. Latin, to my knowledge, never loses the hard B, so a native Latin speaker probably could not have made this error. [ATTACH=full]1317342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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