> I have a catalog from a now-defunct typefoundry in Athens,
> Greece. It isn't dated, but appears to be from the 1970s.
> Most of the showings are for fonts of display sizes of
> Greek typefaces (in metal printing type).
>
> Some fonts have the decender-beta, but most have the
> other beta. It appears that the non-descender-beta is more
> common. In most of those fonts, the lowercase theta has the
> form of a mirror-image of the non-descender-beta. I have
> scanned in a sample at
>
http://www.marlboromats.com/shaw/greek.gif
>
> Notice the beta and theta at the end of the fifth line. These
> forms are used in the majority of the fonts shown in the
> catalog.