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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4859916, member: 87404&quot;]With all this talk about SC meaning, and much of it relating to Antioch AE coinage, I&#039;ll toss these two coins out there. Post-Caracalla Antiochene bronze and billion coins added Δ and Є in their fields:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1173604[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1173605[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1173606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1173607[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But these examples below take them up a notch making them the prominent element on the reverse where an SC would appear, and the SC doesn&#039;t make any appearance on this coin type. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_2018042_uiupd.jpg?w=723" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Elagabalus, Ruled 218-222 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE20, Syria, Antioch Mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse:&nbsp; IMP C MAVR ANTONINVS [AVG], laureate bust right, three dots at top of laurel.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: ΔЄ across field, star below, all within wreath of 10 elements fastened at top with garland.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reference: BMC 447-50, McAlee 799</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 20mm, 4.64g</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_2018042_ycwns.jpg?w=723" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Elagabalus, Ruled 218-222 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE19, Syria, Antioch Mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse:&nbsp; IMP C MAV[R ANT]ONINVS AVG, laureate bust right, three dots at top of laurel.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: ΔЄ across field, star below, all within wreath of 10 elements fastened at top with garland.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reference: BMC 447-50, McAlee 799</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 19mm, 6.94g</font></p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I was doing some searching about the Delta and Epsilon and came across two opinions... </p><p><br /></p><p>Forvm&#039;s &quot;moonmoth&quot; contributor suggests that it stands for something like Demosia Exousia or ΔHMAPXIKHΣ EXOYΣIAΣ, Greek for Public or Tribunician Power.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other, proposed by Butcher in <i>Coinage of Roman Syria,</i> is that it stands for Δ EΠAPXEIΩN, &quot;of the four eparchies,&quot; and is related to the imperial cult at Antioch (and later at Laodicea).</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, Elagabalus issued an AE type from Antioch with K and A above and below SC on reverse instead of Δ and Є (not my coin):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1173598[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t searched about this reverse type, as I don&#039;t have one. Anyone have info about K &amp; A?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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