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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8313986, member: 110350&quot;]My one coin from Anchialus, from Gordian III&#039;s reign, does use the &quot;gamma nasal&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III with wife Tranquillina, AE 26 mm., 241-244 AD, Thracia, Anchialus [Pomorie, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane; ΑVT Κ M ANT / ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ clockwise around; CEB TPAN // KVΛΛINA in exergue; border of dots/ Rev. Apollo standing left, holding patera in right hand; left arm resting on column; ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝωΝ / <b>ΑΓX</b>ΙΑΛEωΝ clockwise around; border of dots. RPC Online VII.2 48961; Moushmov 2939 [H. Moushmov, <i>Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula</i> (1912)], Varbanov II 668 [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Vol. II,</i> <i>Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia</i>) (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria 2005)], AMNG II 656 [F. Münzer &amp; M. Strack, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Thrakien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands</i> Vol. II (Berlin, 1912)]. 26 mm., 11.91 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471862[/ATTACH]</p><p>The one coin you show from Anchialus that doesn&#039;t use it is from an earlier period, i.e., the time of Faustina II. If one were to take a look on RPC at a large enough number of coins from that city, I wonder if there would be a pattern of the N being used earlier and the gamma nasal being adopted later. Which might fit your theory of Latin-speaking vs. Greek-speaking die engravers. Or not, as the case may be![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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