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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 3049804, member: 42773&quot;]Very nice acquisitions! Sometimes I can read them, sometimes I fail miserably. We are in good company, even among the most learned of interpreters. In <i>Greek, Semitic, and Asiatic Coins</i>, Richard Plant has this to say...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>A worse feature of the Pahlavi script is the way scribes were quite accustomed to write one letter, say L, when they really meant another, say R. As Pahlavi, even without this &quot;nasty little habit&quot; suffers, in a greater degree than any other North Semitic alphabet, from ambiguity of letter shapes; and as the legends on the coins are blurred anyway, Sasanian coins are extremely hard to read.</i> [p. 72]</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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