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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8509579, member: 72790&quot;]Wonderful post. Short answer. You can do it. I was blessed by receiving a Classical education back in the day when Latin was a requirement for everyone at my secondary school and later at the University. Also I chose to study ancient (Attic) Greek and later on my own before going to Greece, modern demotic Greek. By the way, that turned into a comedy of errors when I got to Greece. I probably sounded like someone who had studied Chaucer and Shakespeare in school and then went to the marketplace and tried it out on the vendors. I also studied Italian and that worked a bit better as my earlier Latin classes had used the Italianate or ecclesiastical pronunciation. I still study both Latin and Greek on a regular schedule, first thing in the morning. I have a parallel paged copy of the New Testament with Koine&nbsp; Greek on the one side and Vulgate Latin on the other. I read a small portion every day. I cannot be too emphatic in urging collectors of ancient coins to pick up some ancient languages as this will literally light up your coins. Sorry, I cannot comment on the Caracalla portion of you posting though as it turns out I am reading what is the only current biography of the man in English but I am more interested in other areas of ancient coins. May Fortuna and Tyche guide your linguistic studies if you proceed with them. Oh, one thought on the Caracalla sesterces. I have found his larger brass somewhat pricey. You might want to try obtaining some of the Roman Provincial brass of the man. The larger ones are about the same size and weight of the sestertius but a lot cheaper and you can use your Greek to translate the inscriptions. Xaipe kai Vale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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