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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 182570, member: 283&quot;](?) You must be forgetting all about reverse legends when you mention ancient Roman coinages Mik <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Just looking at one coin I have immediately at hand, (a Nerva denarius roughly the same dimensions as an Austrian 3 kreuzer of the Leopold I time frame), the reverse legend reads `Fortuna August&#039;. No abbreviation to 4 letters there mah deah chep.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In relation to Austrian Empire coinage, (specifically the use of BUR as an abbreviation for Burgundiae), i&#039;ve seen it abbreviated to BU on larger coins, i&#039;ve seen it expanded to BURG on the smaller denomination coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>Much as though logic might dictate otherwise, `spelling&#039; on its own gives no indication whatsoever as to the size of the coin. Sometimes they just made the font smaller.....sometimes that enabled them to say more....or less. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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