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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3120182, member: 75937&quot;]Many Roman coin inscriptions are abbreviated and that won&#039;t work in many cases. &quot;Translate P P&quot; won&#039;t yield &quot;father of the country&quot; (<i>pater patriae</i>).</p><p><br /></p><p>This approach will not work for IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI P P, which is short for IMP[ERATORI] CAES[ARO] NER[VAE] TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG[VSTO] GERM[ANICO] DAC[ICO] PARTHICO P[ONTIFICI] M[AXIMO] TR[IBVNICIO] POT[ESTATE] XX CO[N]S[VLI] VI P[ATRI] P[ATRIAE].</p><p><br /></p><p>This is translated, &quot;To the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan, the best, revered defeater of the Germans, defeater of the Dacians, defeater of the Parthians, highest priest, with tribunician power for the twentieth time, consul for the sixth time, father of the country.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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