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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1793165, member: 42773&quot;]These two coins arrived in the post yesterday. They aren&#039;t quite as green as the seller&#039;s images, but they are lovely pieces. Here&#039;s the first...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s23.postimg.org/4x16e0o3f/attribution.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A few observations. RIC notes that the legend FEL<font size="5"><b>·</b></font>TEMP<font size="5">·</font>REPARATIO sometimes occurs without the punctuation, as on my coin. But I have yet to see a legend <u>with</u> the punctuation. It seems to me the version without dots is more common.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, as far as the quasi-Phoenician marks go, the table on page 366 of RIC VIII seems to imply there&#039;s a correlation between the marks and officina letters, but my coin does not present that correlation. Do so many of those marks line up with the Greek letters, on so many coins, that one can draw the conclusion that they represent equivalent numbers in different alphabets? Is my coin an anomaly - an error perhaps? Or are the squiggly marks something else altogether: batch numbers?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s23.postimg.org/nrssa2fp7/ric1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even RIC admits the complexity of the problem (p.344)...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Later in the same paragraph...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By the way, I used the expression &quot;quasi-Phoenician&quot;, but I haven&#039;t seen any scholarship that connects the marks to the Phoenician alphabet. That&#039;s just a personal observation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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