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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4959059, member: 111037"]I am not sure I have the answer, but I suspect it is most likely just aesthetic reasons. Also, we need to seriously take into account the timing. Archaic and classical Greek coins did not have much writing on them, but at the same time there was no way to compare them with Roman coins as those didn't even exist yet. And as we know from the Hellenistic period and beyond Greek coins got a lot wordier, so there wasn't much of a difference with the Roman ones, apart from the style of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here a Greek example. One common theme with Greek coins is that the city name, if present, was often abbreviated. In this case they only bothered to write the first part of the city name. 'Μεταποντιον' became 'Μετα'. Perhaps this indicates that the design was more important than the wording and in any case the barley grain was a well known identifier of that city.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1192137[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4959059, member: 111037"]I am not sure I have the answer, but I suspect it is most likely just aesthetic reasons. Also, we need to seriously take into account the timing. Archaic and classical Greek coins did not have much writing on them, but at the same time there was no way to compare them with Roman coins as those didn't even exist yet. And as we know from the Hellenistic period and beyond Greek coins got a lot wordier, so there wasn't much of a difference with the Roman ones, apart from the style of course. Here a Greek example. One common theme with Greek coins is that the city name, if present, was often abbreviated. In this case they only bothered to write the first part of the city name. 'Μεταποντιον' became 'Μετα'. Perhaps this indicates that the design was more important than the wording and in any case the barley grain was a well known identifier of that city. [ATTACH=full]1192137[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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