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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 326372, member: 9204&quot;]Honestly, its almost as good as English, being mostly titles and names, which don&#039;t have to change in a translation. Its in the same alphabet, even! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Try the legends here, taken from an aureus of Trajan</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the hardest part there is knowing what the abbreviations stand for. So, that means it says Imperator Caesar Trainus Hadrianus Augustus. Not too much different, eh?</p><p><br /></p><p>Granted, some of the reverse legends get more complicated. Take this one for example, from a sestertius of Claudius. </p><p><br /></p><p>EX / S C / O B / CIVES / SERVATOS</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Indeed, more complicated. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for placing mintmarks on their coins, they started doing that in the third century. Just dots in the exergue at first, then X&#039;s, I&#039;s and V&#039;s. But eventually they got to wholescale abbreviations of the mintnames. PLN, for example, stood for Prima Londonium, or the first workshop of the London mint. Or SMANT, for Sacra Moneta Antiocha. Heck, in the mid forth century you even have the HERACL mintmark for the Heraclea mint![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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