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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 5010334, member: 89514&quot;]It would be interesting to know who first recognized that the control letters on this Ulysses and Argus coin spell out the moneyer&#039;s name. Apparently a comparatively recent discovery; Babelon in 1886 stated that the control letters were all of the letters of the Latin alphabet. Grueber in 1910 would also appear not to have known, or at least he doesn&#039;t state the fact in his description and commentary on the BM examples. See note 1 on p. 343: &quot;The mint-marks used by this moneyer are limited to single letters of the alphabet placed only on the obverse.&quot; Sydenham 741 (1952) also seems ignorant of this fact; &quot;on obv. l. caduceus and variable letter, rarely with a dot.&quot; It would have been helpful if Crawford 362 (1974) had named the discoverer of this interesting detail, or had taken credit himself if he was the first to notice it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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