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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2058033, member: 42773&quot;]The letters are MA, sometime NA. According to Hoover...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The meaning of the abbreviated Phoenician inscriptions that appear on almost all Aradian issues in the Persian period is controversial. The basic inscription MA has been variously interpreted as an abbreviation meaning &#039;Marathos and Arwad,&#039; &#039;Ba&#039;al-Arwad,&#039; &#039;kingdom of Arwad,&#039; or &#039;king of Arwad.&quot; (HGC 10, p. 11)</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is obviously not of the Persian period. However, the Aradians recapitulated some earlier silver types, in bronze, during the Seleucid era. This is one of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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