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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1961200, member: 44210&quot;]I hope this counts, but I definitely found interesting that they would sometimes use different spellings of certain words/names on Ostrogothic coins, not little changes like AV in place of AVG, for example, but whole words. Since a good portion of the coins I&#039;ve seen have &quot;misspelled&quot; words, I believe that this may have been intentional to some extent. I figure that, with the less emphasis placed on learning/speaking Latin in the new barbarian kingdoms of western Europe at the time, the die engravers had more freedom to engrave words based probably on how they thought they were spelt. For example, on many Ostrogothic coins (especially the silver), the Latin word for king, &quot;Rex&quot;, is spelt as &quot;Rix&quot;, and &quot;Imvicta&quot; was sometimes used in place of &quot;Invicta&quot;, Latin for unconquerable. King&#039;s names on these coins have their spelling variations as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>First coin (mine): DN ATHALARICVS on the reverse</p><p>Second coin: DN ATALARICVS (no H in name)</p><p>Both have INVICTA on the obverse</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Athalaric2_zps1327b200.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Athal2_zpsceb4f301.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The following coin of mine has IMVICTA ROMA (kind of hard to see in the photo but it is indeed there).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/ostrohalffollis_zps43632792.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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