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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1205279, member: 24213&quot;]A) Roman Imperial coins (particularly of the second and third centuries) often list the number of years emperors held certain offices, which ends up giving us petty accurate dates for when those coins were issued. Many Byzantine coins also had regnal years on them. Other dating crops up on eastern coinage, including Sassanid and some cultures of ancient India.</p><p><br /></p><p>B) No one knows for sure where the L comes from, but it is generally believed to be derived from the Demotic (an ancient Egyptian script) symbol for year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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