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 Posted 08/30/2017  11:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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As for the letter P, the form on your coin was transitional from the Greek uncial for Pi (which looks like a croquet hoop).
Actually, the archaic Greek pi looked pretty much exactly like the form on the OP's coin, and the rectangular-minus-bottom-line letter didn't evolve until well after the Romans borrowed it (it still has the same "croquet hoop" shape in modern Greek, by the way).
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