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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3162020, member: 19463&quot;]Very good point!&nbsp; One beginners might want to learn is that Diocletian tetradrachms from Alexandria frequently has a &#039;dot&#039; in the middle of the legend.&nbsp; This is actually the letter omicron (small o) just living up to its name.&nbsp; None of my three examples below have a &#039;hole&#039; in that o but do in others in the legend</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the dot is pretty large but still a dot betewwn I and K.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811906[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the dot o is small enough it could be missed if you are not careful.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811907[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>By year 9 the shorter legend was in use so the dot o was the third letter from the left.&nbsp; Fewer letters meant there was room for a full size letter but that was not the way they made &#039;small o&#039;. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]811908[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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