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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 7923838, member: 82322&quot;]It&#039;s not Lambda, it looks like the Latin letter L.&nbsp; On some Phoenician coins it looks like &lt;.&nbsp; More then 100 years ago Barclay Head wrote:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The ordinary method of dating is by regnal years. From circ. B.C. 200 onwards the numeral is regularly preceded by the symbol L, which is also of common occurrence in Ptolemaic papyri. This was formerly supposed to be an Egyptian sign, perhaps of demotic origin, but it may be no more than a fragmentary survival of the initial Ε of ΕΤΟVΣ (<i>J. H. S.</i>, 1902, pp. 149 ff).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/egypt.html#847" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/egypt.html#847" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/hn/egypt.html#847</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am unaware of the current thinking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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