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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gil-galad, post: 7516793, member: 44154&quot;][ATTACH=full]1298536[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Imperial, Domitian (81 AD) AE Sestertius, Rome mint</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: IMP CAES DIVI VESP F DOMITIAN AVG P M, Laureate head right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: TR P COS VII DES VIII P P S-C, Minerva standing right, brandishing spear and holding round shield.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: RIC 76, Cohen 561, Sear 2778</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5649&amp;pos=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5649&amp;pos=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5649&amp;pos=3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting, I began with Roman Imperial coins and I ID&#039;d each one just like this Domitian Sestertius. Eventually I started collecting every ancient coin within my budget and those that don&#039;t have Latin legend inscriptions. When I was working on my ancient coin photo galleries, I wanted to ID other coins in the same way. It took me awhile but here are the results. I posted images for those coins with ancient writing systems because Unicode for other languages has been disabled here or something similar to that. This way, all the letter characters can be seen without needing any fonts. However, I will post a link to each one at my Forum Ancient Coin gallery. If you have the fonts, you will see these characters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reading Roman Imperial coins can also be tough until you learn how. One thing that makes it easier to understand is that late Roman Imperial coins have propaganda inscription messages.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-roman.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-roman.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-roman.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not there is a lot to be discovered by reading coins. Such as Nabataean coins that have quite a few words and names on the coins. A list has been made of these words which is quite a lot larger than when I started working on this project. This is how these coins can help increase the understanding of the Nabataean language. I made a page for it here</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-nabataean-1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-nabataean-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ancientwhitesheet/reading-nabataean-1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298524[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a bilingual coin with ancient Greek on the obverse and Kharosthi on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5706&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5706&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5706&amp;pos=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5678&amp;pos=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5678&amp;pos=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5678&amp;pos=3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin with Paleo-Hebrew that is part of the early Phoenician alphabet.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298523[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5679&amp;pos=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5679&amp;pos=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5679&amp;pos=2</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298525[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sasanian which uses Pahlavi.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298528[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Arabic.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5680&amp;pos=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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