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Message:: [QUOTE="Orfew, post: 2498699, member: 74968"]Hi MM, your link provided a fascinating discussion on the origin of certain scripts. It is possible that the move from upper case "B" to lower case "b" was the choice to use "new roman cursive" rather than the Capitalis Quadrata. I say it is possible, not that this is the definitive answer. More research is necessary. The text below is from wikipedia. New Roman cursive, also called minuscule cursive or later Roman cursive, developed from old Roman cursive. It was used from approximately the 3rd century to the 7th century, and uses letter forms that are more recognizable to modern readers; "a", "b", "d", and "e" have taken a more familiar shape, and the other letters are proportionate to each other rather than varying wildly in size and placement on a line Here is a quote from another source. I have no idea if this would apply to coins. What scripts did the ancient Romans use? In the absence of a printing press, everything was handwritten, but we can still identify distinct scripts that were used for different purposes. It was square capitals (capitalis quadrata) for inscriptions on public monuments since the early imperial age, old and new Roman cursive for daily writing (shopping lists, inventories, birthday notes etc), and rustic capitals for copying out literary works. The entire article is here <a href="https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ancientbooks/2016/05/25/ancient-fonts-rustic-capitals-old-and-new-roman-cursive/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ancientbooks/2016/05/25/ancient-fonts-rustic-capitals-old-and-new-roman-cursive/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ancientbooks/2016/05/25/ancient-fonts-rustic-capitals-old-and-new-roman-cursive/</a>[/QUOTE]

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