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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2489587, member: 44316"]The ancient Greeks did not use lower-case letters. In the old days, scholars who studied numismatics studied Greek and to them the lower-case shapes immediately evoked the letter. Numerous SNGs have lower-case transcriptions of upper-case letters and this unfortunate practice has not entirely been discontinued. However, most collectors are not fluent in Greek and do not immediately recognize "ν" as "N". I encourage everyone to transcribe Greek letters on coins with Greek letters in print that look like the letters on the coin. Usually that requires using upper-case letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2489587, member: 44316"]The ancient Greeks did not use lower-case letters. In the old days, scholars who studied numismatics studied Greek and to them the lower-case shapes immediately evoked the letter. Numerous SNGs have lower-case transcriptions of upper-case letters and this unfortunate practice has not entirely been discontinued. However, most collectors are not fluent in Greek and do not immediately recognize "ν" as "N". I encourage everyone to transcribe Greek letters on coins with Greek letters in print that look like the letters on the coin. Usually that requires using upper-case letters.[/QUOTE]
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