I find it really annoying when authors use
abbreviations and do not include them in the list of
abbreviations they add. Some are obvious, such as
ANS,
BMC,
Cop, but often an author omits to add an abbreviation to a list.
A case in point is shown on
countermarks nos. 640 and 641 in Chris Howgego's "
Greek Imperial Countermarks": 640 gives "M 21" as source, 641 gives "M 39" as source. 641 is the one I am interested in.
But looking in the key to the
abbreviations at the back of the book shows no abbreviation "M". It's not
Munich (in the list as
SNG..."), not
Mionnet (in the list as "
Mionnet.."), not
Mabbott,
McClean,
MacDowall,
Moushmov,
Mauromichale, or anything else I can think of.
Almost every other source in the book is written in some understandable form, even without having to refer to the
abbreviations key - but not this mysterious "M".
Does anyone know to what or to whom Chris
Howgego is referring ?