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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4509421, member: 72790&quot;]Nice image of Constantinople with Hagia Sophia in the background (and without the much later Turkish minarets along side. As for the differences in the endings of pentanummion and pentanummi. The generic word for coin in early Latin was originally something like nummus (cf nomos) in Latin (as in numismatist). As a masculine noun of the second declension its plural form was nummi, hence,&nbsp; a decem nummi coin of ten of these little coins. The Greek speaking eastern part of the empire used the term nummion, making it a Greek noun but of neuter gender. In Greek (and in Latin, too) the plural ending of a neuter, second declension noun is an &quot;a&quot; so in the Greek speaking east a decem nummi, became a deka nummia. In strict usage I suppose the way to use these multiple nummia (or nummi) coins is either the Latin or Greek forms, but not to mix the two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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