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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2982730, member: 82322&quot;]Very nice!&nbsp; When it is too much work to abbreviate your city name just create a monogram out of the first two letters!&nbsp; I had not seen that before.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a prow coin, possibly from Arados.&nbsp; It matches a coin in SNG Copenhagen, but the authors of that volume weren&#039;t willing to commit to a city so it is just &quot;Phoenicia Uncertain&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]734091[/ATTACH] </p><p>Phoenicia, uncertain city, AE15, 3.82g</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of bearded god r.; within circle of dots</p><p>Rev: Prow of galley l. with Athena fighting as figure-head; above ΙΔ; below CΙΕ</p><p>Ref: SNG Copenhagen 382 as uncertain mint, BMC <i>Phoenicia</i> p. 297 #2 </p><p><br /></p><p>What really interested me was the inscriptions on the reverse, which look like ΙΔ and CΙΕ.&nbsp; That means a Greek Delta, a Latin C, and a Phoenician&nbsp; all on the same coin, all jumbled up.</p><p><br /></p><p>If CIE is the date it decodes as year 200+10+5=215.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a Arados bronze, Zeus/Prow, dated CH which is year 208 corresponding to 51/1 BC.&nbsp; If my CIE is Arados this would be seven years after that, or 44/3 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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