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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2856190, member: 19463&quot;]Quite frequently at least later when there were more marked officinae coins.&nbsp; This was a relatively new idea in the middle of the third century.&nbsp; There even was one period during the Fel Temp Reparatio period that the Rome mint used a mixture of Latin ordinals and Greek numerals. P, <span style="color: #ff0000">B</span>, T, Q, <span style="color: #ff0000">E</span>, <span style="color: #00b300">S</span>, <span style="color: #ff0000">Z</span> for 1 through 7.&nbsp;&nbsp; Black letters were ordinals Prima, Tertia, Quarta; Red were Greek numerals; the green S is both since the ordinal Sexta and the Greek numeral S for 6 look alike.&nbsp; This was the sort of thing Rome would do.&nbsp; They often marched to a different drummer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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