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GREEK AND ROMAN COINS
[bk, π
relating to the period 269-50 b.c. are however sufficiently
interesting to be noted.
A or a is the earliest form. In the word jRoma it begins to
be replaced by A in the period 172-151 ; in other words,
A began to come in during the period 196-173 h The diphthongs
Al and AE are used indifferently, but Al is on the whole later
than AE.
C is the regular form ; but occasionally, from about 90 b c.
onwards, it is impossible to distinguish between C (c) and G (g).
El occasionally represents a long I, as also does E.
H is not found before 91 b.c.
K not before 93 b.c. on Roman coins proper. In words it is
only found before the letter A.
h is the early form, although an occasional L is found as
early as 172-151 b.c. About 102, the latter form becomes
invariable. There is sometimes a tendency to make the letter
lean slightly to the right (Z_). is confined to imperial times,
and even then is not found on coins of Rome itself.
M or ΛΑ is practically the only form in use ; but the amount
of splaying varies, being sometimes, in and after 67 b.c, very
slight. /W is the abbreviation for Manins.
N is usual from the first appearance of the letter (196-173) ;
but the slanting form A/ is also found, though rarely.
o is almost invariably written smaller than the other letters.
The diphthong OE occurs in 61 b.c.
Γ is the true form, but usually the hook is rounded, so that
we get P. The letter on Republican coins is never closed like
the modern P, except owing to careless writing1 2.
R does not change its form, but it should be noticed that the
upper loop is made small in proportion to the whole, and that
the leg comes rather far out to the right.
The sound x is occasionally, though not in the earliest times,
represented by XS (as in 73 and 65 b.c.).
1 Although A disappeared from the coins, it continued to be used in
lapidary inscriptions, and from these it won its way back on to the coins
of at least one Roman colony in the third century a. d. (^Olbasa in Pisidia,
Brit. Mus. Catal., Lycia, &c., pp. 229, 230, Pl. 36, 14, 15).
2 The closed form occurs distinctly on coins of Tiberius after about
A.n. 25. But it does not supplant the open form until the reign of
Claudius I ; P is even found as late as Galba (on an aureus with
Victoria P. R.').
GREEK AND ROMAN COINS
[bk, π
relating to the period 269-50 b.c. are however sufficiently
interesting to be noted.
A or a is the earliest form. In the word jRoma it begins to
be replaced by A in the period 172-151 ; in other words,
A began to come in during the period 196-173 h The diphthongs
Al and AE are used indifferently, but Al is on the whole later
than AE.
C is the regular form ; but occasionally, from about 90 b c.
onwards, it is impossible to distinguish between C (c) and G (g).
El occasionally represents a long I, as also does E.
H is not found before 91 b.c.
K not before 93 b.c. on Roman coins proper. In words it is
only found before the letter A.
h is the early form, although an occasional L is found as
early as 172-151 b.c. About 102, the latter form becomes
invariable. There is sometimes a tendency to make the letter
lean slightly to the right (Z_). is confined to imperial times,
and even then is not found on coins of Rome itself.
M or ΛΑ is practically the only form in use ; but the amount
of splaying varies, being sometimes, in and after 67 b.c, very
slight. /W is the abbreviation for Manins.
N is usual from the first appearance of the letter (196-173) ;
but the slanting form A/ is also found, though rarely.
o is almost invariably written smaller than the other letters.
The diphthong OE occurs in 61 b.c.
Γ is the true form, but usually the hook is rounded, so that
we get P. The letter on Republican coins is never closed like
the modern P, except owing to careless writing1 2.
R does not change its form, but it should be noticed that the
upper loop is made small in proportion to the whole, and that
the leg comes rather far out to the right.
The sound x is occasionally, though not in the earliest times,
represented by XS (as in 73 and 65 b.c.).
1 Although A disappeared from the coins, it continued to be used in
lapidary inscriptions, and from these it won its way back on to the coins
of at least one Roman colony in the third century a. d. (^Olbasa in Pisidia,
Brit. Mus. Catal., Lycia, &c., pp. 229, 230, Pl. 36, 14, 15).
2 The closed form occurs distinctly on coins of Tiberius after about
A.n. 25. But it does not supplant the open form until the reign of
Claudius I ; P is even found as late as Galba (on an aureus with
Victoria P. R.').