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The coins seem at first sight to be coins of year 5 (L Ε), but they have a later obverse inscription, which is why Emmett 389 included them under year 15. A. Geissen has made to us (in litt.) the clever suggestion that they are actually coins of year nine with a partially retrograde reverse inscription, so VOTAN = retrograde ΝΑΤΟΥ and the full inscription was intended to be L E –NATOV. This attractive suggestion would also explain the otherwise anomalous (for year 5) obverse inscription.
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