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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2958209, member: 72790&quot;]My reference for this is the book, Coins and Archaeology by Lloyd R. Laing, Schocken Books, NYC, 1970 US Edition, page 21, on ancient coin chronology where he details the use of ETOYS (of the year) on Egyptian coins which is abbreviated to L the fragmentary of the initial letter E. If the reader is not familiar with professor Laing he was a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians and fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society. In his lifetime he has directed many excavations. I have had this book for decades and have found it to be quite accurate when it comes to ancient and medieval numismatics. Thanks for the previous link to the present discussion but I think I will go with this book&#039;s explanation of the L as a short hand demotic for ETOYS. Remember that L is not a letter in the Greek alphabet so it is shorthand for something else, and a shortened letter E, easier to inscribe than the full letter and easier to place next to another letter seems to make good sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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