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The Ancient Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet changed over time and the letters sometimes took different appearances in the different regions of the Greek world.

There are many published tables of the known forms of ancient Greek letters. This table provides the letter forms linked to a ‘primary source’ — an inscription, or ‘legend’, on an ancient coin.

Name	Character	Common	Unusual
Alpha	Α A		(2) (3m)
Beta	Β B		(5) (?)
Gamma	Γ G		(2) (7)
Delta	Δ D
Epsilon	Ε E	(2)
Stigma	Ϛ	(2)
Digamma	F
Zeta	Ζ Z	(2)
Eta	Η H		(2)
Theta	Θ TH	(2) (3)	(7)
Iota	Ι I
Kappa	Κ K
Lambda	Λ L
Mu	Μ M
Nu	Ν N		(3)
Xi	Ξ X	(2)
Omicron	Ο O
Pi	Π P	(2) (3)
San	M		(2)
Koppa	Q
Rho	Ρ R		(6)
Sigma	Σ S	(9)	(5)
Tau	Τ T
Upsilon	Υ Y	(2)
Phi	Φ PH
Chi	Χ CH
Psi	Ψ PS	(2)
Omega	Ω O	(2)
Sampi	{Sampi} SS		(2) (4)

					01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Alpha			1	A
Beta			2	Β
Gamma			3	Γ
Delta			4	Δ
Epsilon			5	Ε
Stigma			6	Ϛ
Digamma			6	Ϝ
Zeta			7	Ζ
Eta Heta			8	Η
Theta			9	Θ
Iota			10	Ι
Kappa			20	Κ
Lambda			30	Λ
Mu			40	Μ
Nu			50	Ν
Xi			60	Ξ
Omicron			70	Ο
Pi			80	Π
San				Ϻ
Koppa			90	Ϙ
Rho			100	Ρ
Sigma			200	Σ
Sho				Ϸ
Tau			300	Τ
Upsilon			400	Υ
Phi			500	Φ
Chi			600	Χ
Psi			700	Ψ
Omega			800	Ω
Sampi			900	Ϡ
… – —

Retrograde Characters

The numbers after the letters correspond to names in the Numismatica Pro Archaic and Classical Greek font.

See also the Font tables from the Historia Numorum. Also, Snibble's "The Ancient Greek Alphabet" Chart.

Coin images provided courtesy of the wildwinds.com database and are the property of the copyright holders. Coin image databases CoinArchives.com and Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum are also linked.