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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5399809, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations on the 39,000 posts!</p><p><br /></p><p>My example, with another letter ligatured with the &quot;A&quot; (see detail). The eagle and dolphin both have straight backs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Moesia, Istros. 400-350 BCE. AR Drachm. Obv. Two facing male heads, left head inverted / Rev: Sea eagle on dolphin, ISTRIH [<i>partially off flan</i>] above eagle, globule under eagle’s tail; letter “A” ligatured with [archaic Π with shortened right stem?] beneath dolphin.&nbsp; SNG.BM.249 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" rel="nofollow"><b>SNGuk_0901_0249</b></a> with Rev. Monogram No. 49]; AMNG I/I No. 417 <i>var.</i> [no globule], see also No. 422 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I </i> (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 161-162]; BMC 3 Thrace No. 6 <i>var. </i>[no globule] [Poole, R.S., ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc., Vol. 3</i> (London, 1877) at p. 25]; Seaby 1669 <i>var.</i> [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins &amp; their Values, Vol.</i> <i>I: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978)]. 19 mm., 5.36 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1232965[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1232966[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any further thoughts on the identity of the second letter are welcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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