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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1857924, member: 112&quot;]I started learning Latin at a very early age because of my religious upbringing. And I studied it in school as well. Back then I could read the original Caesar quite well. But that was over 40 years ago, and like anything,&nbsp; lack of usage leads to forgetfulness. Oh I can still remember a lot of the basic stuff like declinations and conjugations for some nouns and verbs, but that&#039;s about it. I could no more read Latin today than I could Chinese !</p><p><br /></p><p>But when it comes to coins there&#039;s really not all that much that you have to know. So I can still read the legends on most, don&#039;t know about a lot of ancients as I have zero familiarity with them. But medieval and later, I can hold my own in most cases. &#039;Course the hard part with a lot of medieval coins, and I assume the case would be the same with ancients, is often deciphering what letters are actually there because of clipping, bad strikes, etc. But if you have any familiarity with the coinage you pretty much know what the legends are anyway in most cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that serves pretty well because just about all coins, at least European coins, (excepting some moderns) have Latin legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Forgot to mention, if you have trouble translating a Latin word or phrase, this works pretty well - <a href="http://translate.google.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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