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echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 1:51 pm Received these two Numerian from member Eddop. IMP NUMERIANVS AVG/IOVI VICTORI/KAB. IMP NUMERIANVS AVG/ORIENS AVGG/KA SIGMA I left the attribution out for those that like to look them up. Report this Post to the Staff

DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 2:31 pm Great coins--both are well struck and centered--nice details! I'll wait on others to attribute these. Report this Post to the Staff
Bing Pillar of the Community United States 4253 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 3:02 pm Nice coins, especially for this emperor. Report this Post to the Staff
dougsmit Pillar of the Community United States 1549 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 9:10 pm I particularly like the well styled stigma/digamma on the second one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigma_(letter) Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 9:26 pm It is an interesting symbols considering how it was first used as a letter but than fazed out to be used only as a number in ancient times. Report this Post to the Staff
dougsmit Pillar of the Community United States 1549 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 9:43 pm When you use letters for numerals and drop a letter, you have to do something so they substituted the stigma for the digamma which was dropped by time. The numeral for 90 was qoppa which was the first letter in the name of the city Corinth but did nothing else after the archaic period. 90 appears in some Hellenistic coin dates. Finally the 900 was san but the number never comes up on a coin as far as I know. English may have done some alphabet modifications but since we have separate numeral forms we could lose a few letters and no one would care after a few centuries. Report this Post to the Staff
MartiVltori Pillar of the Community United States 870 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 10:07 pm Beautiful ants. :) Report this Post to the Staff
jessvc1 Pillar of the Community United States 2596 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 10:19 pm nice coins echizento Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 10:35 pm Thanks for the comments. Here are the attributions, 1. RIC II, Rome 410 2. RIC II, Rome 412 Both are listed as common which I find odd for this short lived emperor. Report this Post to the Staff
VisigothKing Pillar of the Community United States 4778 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 10:38 pm Nice pickups. I should get a hold of Eddop when I get an itching for a coin of this emperor, if he has any within my budget that he can sell me. Edited by VisigothKing 03/02/2012 10:39 pm Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/02/2012 11:19 pm These were not expensive. Report this Post to the Staff
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