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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2166885, member: 19463&quot;]It was up to each mint how the matter was handled.&nbsp; The most common use of Roman numerals was to resolve conflicts in a series of ordinal numbers.&nbsp; S was secundus or 2 but that was a problem for shop sextus or 6 since S was already used.&nbsp; That led to VI.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lugdunum did use all Roman numerals in exergue for Probus as shown below but more mints used Greek numberals or the ordinals.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]417774[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]417775[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lets also realize that the same mint was perfectly free to change the way they did things from issue to issue.&nbsp; The precedent for this was set early when Philip at Rome issued the first two openly marked issues with one in Roman and the other in Greek:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/phltrgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/phlnumgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It is our job to figure out what they were doing if not why the did it that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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