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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7986076, member: 110504&quot;]...Yep, the truth is that both spellings are used, in English, by academics.&nbsp; Since they&#039;re transliterations anyway, it&#039;s like, whatever feels good....</p><p>A lot of people think it&#039;s bad luck to post coins before they actually arrive.&nbsp; But I&#039;m a trusting soul.&nbsp; Just landed these at auction, after having been bulldozed during the recent Roma auction, featuring a lot of amazing stuff from the Vaccaro collection.&nbsp; (...Pioneering numismatist in this stuff; largely, correspondingly discredited.&nbsp; For provenance, it was kind of, Meh.&nbsp; ...Cf. (appropriately enough) Aesop, the fox and the grapes: &#039;...I&#039;m sure they were sour, anyway.&#039;)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385813[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anon. AE, c. late 4th c.&nbsp; BACI/\EVC (yep, Greek); TOYTOAPECHTHXWPA (&#039;May this please the country&#039;).&nbsp; The cross is different from most of these in being Latin rather than Greek, and hollowed in the middle, like a contemporaneous AR issue, but without gold inlay.&nbsp; Munro-Hay 51 (cf. 50; the AR prototype).</p><p>I have a comparable one to this with the more common (solid) Greek cross --but, Rats, no pictures!&nbsp; Had to do something to console myself for being massively outbid in the Roma auction.&nbsp; ...The next one, instead of merely a complement, is a substantive upgrade of the example I had (...and went for Much less).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385817[/ATTACH] </p><p>Hataz, c. 570.&nbsp; AE unit.&nbsp; Facing portrait, imitating Byzantine AE.&nbsp; Ge&#039;ez legend: King Hataz.&nbsp; </p><p>Rev.: Cross in central lozenge; crosslets radiating from the angles.&nbsp; Ge&#039;ez: Mercy to the people.&nbsp; ...Munro-Hay&#039;s chronology (p. 75) notes that the period coincides with the Sasanian Persian conquest of Yemen, the western part of which had invaded by the Aksumite king Kaleb in c. 525, in diplomatic collusion with Justinian I.&nbsp; This ...and the intervening &#039;Plague of Justinian&#039; (discussed here not long ago; cf. this:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43</a> ), might help to acount for the modulation in the reverse legend.&nbsp; ...The level of candor, from a royal government, is refreshing.</p><p>Compare that to the example I already had (and have posted, Yes, recently --on a terrific thread about Justinian), where you get everything except the face.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385842[/ATTACH] </p><p>...Anyone got some Aksumite (Sure, /Axumite) love?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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