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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 5011600, member: 89514&quot;]Donna,</p><p><br /></p><p>A very interesting observation that the same letters could also include MAMILIVS !</p><p><br /></p><p>The key to the original discovery (letters for C LIMETANVS C.F.) would be to notice that 11 Latin letters occur regularly on these coins, but the other 10 letters never, and to ask yourself why. You probably wouldn&#039;t notice the ten missing letters unless you were a collector or scholar attempting to acquire or record every control letter known for that issue, or you had access to a hoard that contained numerous specimens for each of the 11 known letters, but none at all for the other 10 letters.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s unclear to me whether Crawford made this discovery himself, or took it over from someone else. In either case he should have specified who made the observation. By mentioning that Paris has specimens of all 11 attested letters, he was just naming the location of specimens showing all of the known varieties, not implying that it was these Paris coins that led him to the discovery of C LIMETANVS C.F.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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