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Old 07-15-2010, 06:20 AM
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Default Byzantine/Roman coin or Bulla?

Hi all,

still uncleaned at all....

can you decipher the writing?

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The characters are greek, so it's probably from the Byzantine empire, but it's hard to make out words due to an extreme lack of vowels.

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I will clean it and see if there is more detail to help....?

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Since you are good at deciphering the letters... can you write them for me and I will try to further investigate... I think I can make most of them out, but one mistake and I will be off track..

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Very nice find!!!

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The letters I see:

[?] T P [Delta] (the P is probably a greek Rho character)
K T [Pi] [Delta]
[Lambda] [Delta] I [Gamma or Rho] T

One or more of the Deltas may actually be Alphas.

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