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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2820825, member: 76194&quot;]In ancients having coins without their value appearing in either word or number form is common. Here is an example, a denarius of C. Lentulus from the era of the Roman Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]662287[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It has legends but no mark of value appears anywhere on the coin, but it does not matter as the ancient Romans would have known it was a denarius based on size and weight. And they would have known 4 bronze sestertii were worth one denarius even though most sestertii coins had no mark of value either. And they could tell a bronze sestertius apart from a bronze As coin due to size and weight, even if both shared similar designs, and known 10 As were a denarius...and if one can&#039;t figure that out, just get a scale and let the weight sort things out for you. Its not that complicated to have a currency system without marks of value on most coins as long as the system maintains consistent metal weights and sizes for the coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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