Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3447295, member: 10461&quot;]Also, these old Latin names for metals give some their chemical symbols on the Periodic Table of Elements: <b>Ag</b> for silver (<i>argentum</i>), <b>Au</b> for gold (<i>aurum</i>), and <b>Pb</b> for lead (<i>plumbum</i>), for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re wondering how gold ended up with the &quot;AV&quot; abbreviation in numismatic parlance, instead of the &quot;Au&quot; it has on the Periodic Table, that&#039;s because the Romans did not have the letter &quot;U&quot; and used only &quot;V&quot;.&nbsp; So gold (<i>aurum</i>) would have been AVRVM in Roman writing.</p><p><br /></p><p>(The &quot;V instead of U&quot; thing as a throwback to Classical times is also why you see it done a lot in the early 1900s, when neoclassical style was popular.&nbsp; Note the &quot;IN GOD WE TRVST&quot; on the 1921-35 US <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/AFWo6JUIF6oHa5hGeBD6/Cxtp1LrejQ07oe4wu1bQ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/AFWo6JUIF6oHa5hGeBD6/Cxtp1LrejQ07oe4wu1bQ" rel="nofollow">Peace dollars</a>, or &quot;COVRTHOVSE&quot; on dozens of buildings.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in