seriph

plural seriphs

1. archaicArchaic form of serif.

   As the middle seriph is entirely lacking, and the lower seriph is very faulty we would seem to be justified in reading these dates ΓΣ as on the Glasgow specimens.

   1918, Edward T. Newell, “The Seleucid mint of Antioch”, in The American Journal of Numismatics, volume 51, page 103

   2 more examples

   The new shapes introduced, such as the seriph of the g, are, however, not to our taste, and they appear not to have held their position in their native country, for they are now seldom copied.

   1878, Edward Clements Bigmore, Charles William Henry Wyman, The Didot family : extracted from the forthcoming "Bibliography of printing", page 4

   Secondly, instead of being satisfied with an ordinary lower-case h with straight shanks, the Cambridge Type indiscriminately presents another sort of lower-case h in which the righthand “tail” is bent round ; so that one might imagine the letter was at first intended for a b and was then converted, by a heavy horizontal seriph, into an h. It may be compared to the two sorts of italic lower-case h in the Caslon Old Face types; but neither should be used indiscriminately. The bent-shank or swash h should be only used as a final letter.

   1906 July 28, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 301, page 94