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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8270715, member: 19463&quot;]Thanks to Dwarf for pointing out an excellent example of a point that way too many collectors miss.&nbsp; &#039;Greek&#039; coins include thousands of issuing authorities spanning nearly a thousand years and spread over much of the known world from India to the Atlantic.&nbsp; It is never safe to talk about how the &#039;Greeks&#039; did something unless you make it clear which &#039;Greeks&#039; you mean.&nbsp; This includes letters, styles, weight standards, alloys, denomination names, favorite gods and probably many other things that skip my mind at the moment.&nbsp; The matter was even more complex than we see today with English as used in the last 500 years from Chaucer to whoever wrote the instructions for your new piece of electronics. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is an early and unusual of the &#039;lunate sigma&#039; but those of us who collect 3rd century Provincials will have trouble finding a coin that uses anything besides C for sigma.&nbsp; It is great to learn the Greek alphabet and language but we have to realize that the one used in 6th century BC in Italy was not exactly what we see on the front of fraternity houses. </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to the standard Σ and C we even see an &#039;S&#039; turned like our M on c.500BC coins of <b>Sy</b>baris.&nbsp; Ancient coins make a great hobby for those who want to keep on learning new things every day. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459689[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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