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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5182501, member: 110350"]I don't know German either, but I can still read coin descriptions -- all one needs to know is a handful of relevant vocabulary. In the same way that I've been able to carry out very productive genealogical research for the last 25 years in German-language documents, many of them handwritten and from the 18th and 19th centuries, after learning to decipher the various kinds of old German script. (Before that, the handwriting is just too different.)</p><p><br /></p><p>By the same token, French shouldn't be an obstacle. I own the little French book on the zoo coins of Gallienus, and happen to read French pretty well, but even if I didn't I think the book would still be useful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5182501, member: 110350"]I don't know German either, but I can still read coin descriptions -- all one needs to know is a handful of relevant vocabulary. In the same way that I've been able to carry out very productive genealogical research for the last 25 years in German-language documents, many of them handwritten and from the 18th and 19th centuries, after learning to decipher the various kinds of old German script. (Before that, the handwriting is just too different.) By the same token, French shouldn't be an obstacle. I own the little French book on the zoo coins of Gallienus, and happen to read French pretty well, but even if I didn't I think the book would still be useful.[/QUOTE]
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