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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8052884, member: 84905&quot;]As I wrote earlier, it never really occurred to me that most people in the eastern half of the Roman Empire spoke Greek instead of Latin, i.e. knew Latin at best only as a foreign language. </p><p>I think this probably explains a lot of late Roman coins with spelling mistakes. For example, there are many coins of Emperor Leo I with blundered legends. Almost by default, these coins are usually attributed to some (Germanic) barbarians, even if no such group can plausibly be identified. I suppose that it is more likely that these coins were produced by greek mint workers at official mints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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