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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4659906, member: 82322&quot;]For maximum learning, try to write down what you see before you look it up.&nbsp; Later, when you see what the experts said, you can see what you got right and what you got wrong.&nbsp; I&#039;ll try:</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Male head facing left, helmet? decoration?, within circle of dots</p><p>Rev: Lyre or Kithera, letters &quot;box&quot; EPIN OI~N, within circle of dots</p><p><br /></p><p>You don’t need to learn to read ancient Greek.&nbsp; You need to learn the capital letters of Greek.&nbsp; When I was starting out I made a web page of the letters at <a href="http://snible.org/coins/alphabet.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/alphabet.html" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/alphabet.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Using the Greek alphabet, we can improve the inscription, cutting and pasting from your favorite Greek alphabet site.&nbsp; Find the closest match to each letter:</p><p><br /></p><p>ΠΕΡΙΝ ΘΙΩΝ</p><p><br /></p><p>For an American to pronounce that we need to change it into the Latin alphabet.&nbsp; The latin letter for Greek is the first letter of the name (or first two if the second is “h”).&nbsp; So we have</p><p><br /></p><p>ΠΕΡΙΝ ΘΙΩΝ =&gt; Pi Epsilon Rho Iota Nu Theta Iota Omega Nu =&gt; PERIN ThION</p><p><br /></p><p>Just pronounce that “Perinthion”.&nbsp; We saw Greek letters, so this is Greek, so go to <a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/i.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/i.html</a> and look for cities that start with words like this.&nbsp; That should get you to the city name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy your new coin business.&nbsp; If you see me buying something from you, it is probably extremely rare and worth more than you charged for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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