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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3077862, member: 82322&quot;]I also read it as five letters and I scanned the inscription upside-down.&nbsp; It is only the Zeno.ru entry that made me flip my photo and see the ф.&nbsp; I had originally thought of the special Baktrian-only Greek letter &quot;Sho&quot; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho_(letter)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho_(letter)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho_(letter)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are very few Baktrian inscriptions, and even fewer from this time period, and not much scholarly consensus.&nbsp; Let me give an example.&nbsp; You&#039;ll need JSTOR access to read this article: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048900" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048900" rel="nofollow">http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048900</a> &quot;Pangul, a Turko-Baktrian Ruler&quot;.&nbsp; That coin has an inscription that might read &quot;sri bago odebo&quot; in Baktrian.&nbsp; The &quot;odebo&quot; looks a great deal like the фOPO we are discussing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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