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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4553530, member: 19463&quot;]Through many periods of history there has been one language that dominated.&nbsp; Today it is English and many people whose primary language is not English desire to learn English as a second language.&nbsp; In the time of the coins we collect, that language was Greek.&nbsp; I&#039;ll throw your question back at you:&nbsp; Why do US coins have Latin mottos even after most schools are dropping Latin?&nbsp;&nbsp; Did the average Parthian read Greek?&nbsp; Probably not but the people then who read anything were as likely to read Greek as anything.&nbsp; Many Parthian coins butcher the Greek so badly that I would guess the main reason for the legends is that was the way it had always been done and change is slow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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