. William Overington wrote, > What please is a Hellenistic monogram? I am wondering whether this is going > to be a good application of the Private Use Area, either on a permanent > basis or on a temporary basis pending making a formal encoding application. > In either case, reading about the Private Use Area in Chapter 13 of the > Unicode specification available from the http://www.unicode.org webspace may > prove interesting.
This page, which is HTML with many graphics: http://www.oldromancoins.com/gegafr1.htm ...shows examples of Greek monograms used as numismatic marks. See the second illustrated coin, "EGYPT, Ptolemy I, 310-305 B.C.", which has three examples. Should numismatic marks be codified and encoded to the Standard, or would such items be relegated to Private Use Area(s)? There's a wealth of such numismatic marks awaiting codification, used as mint or privy marks. Not just on ancient coins, but up into the modern era. Best regards, James Kass .
