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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2858201, member: 19463&quot;]Simple, actually.&nbsp; You read the legends and look those up either online or in a book.&nbsp; You also pay attention to who wears one type headgear and who does not. The questions were not for absolute beginners but for people who have learned that the legends and other details are there for a reason.&nbsp; On late Romans, for example, we need to recognize that DN, PF and AVG are titles so the ruler name in between them.&nbsp; We learn that Constantine had sons with similar names so you have to pay attention to every letter.&nbsp; Earlier, we learn that Titus and Vespasian had the same name but Vespasian never used the T or spelled out TITVS while Titus always did.&nbsp; We learn that rulers often used a predecessor&#039;s name as part of his own name so a coin inscribed TRAIAN is not Trajan if the next word is HADRIANVS.&nbsp; The quiz was not to teach these things but to separate things we knew from things we need to research.&nbsp;&nbsp; One difficult thing we need to learn is that it is not realistic to expect to get 100% on a quiz unless you have been doing the homework. </p><p><br /></p><p>After I posted that page Google has developed software that can evaluate an image and show other similar images.&nbsp; Like any learning, baby steps come first and I do not know where they stand now.&nbsp; I would be impressed if I showed them a denarius and they showed me denarii.&nbsp; In a few years they might recognize the difference between a Septimius and a Caracalla.&nbsp; Separating Caracalla from Elagabalus might take longer.&nbsp; I suspect they are more interested in working on telling a beagle from a bulldog.&nbsp; Search engines have ruined traditional school type quizzes asking questions like &quot;&#039;When did Septimius die?&quot;&nbsp; My page was to demonstrate questions that required human thought.&nbsp; By teaching their computer to read coin legends and providing a list of all known legends, they will beat my quiz.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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