tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19567381.post8380338120047309861..comments2024-02-05T04:09:09.848-05:00Comments on A Gift For Polydektes: More )(Ed Sniblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346392312959087285noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19567381.post-78401448177767221392007-07-02T20:55:00.000-04:002007-07-02T20:55:00.000-04:00You certainly have discovered a fascinating item, ...You certainly have discovered a fascinating item, and I'm glad people are following up on it. I hope you'll write it up for a numismatic journal. If )( is a carry-over from the chemical symbol (which I bet it is), I'd imagine it faded out, as you suggest, just because nobody kept that bit of type around any more. Just as it's easy for us to still write Æ for bronze, but rather hard to write a ligated AV for gold or AR for silver because our software doesn't permit it. (The Rx symbol is still used in medicine for prescription [recipe], and so has endured typographically.)<BR/><BR/>Bob O'HaraRobert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com