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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 8091943, member: 112342&quot;]Well the obvious one is getting to know the history, but this hobby also developed my linguistic knowledge!</p><p>Even without taking any proper courses in Latin, I now can read and properly pronounce Latin names and even understand some of the terms and their meaning, given my area of study involve a lot of scientific terms in Latin, it really comes in handy!</p><p>Another one is that I can read words written in Greek (although mostly ancient Greek), and to a minor extant Cyrillic script (to a level of 3 year old).</p><p>And a more niche area is the improvement in my understanding of the &#039;vatteluttu&#039; script of Tamil language, which is slightly different from the modern Tamil script (main difference being the modern script has dots), given I already know Tamil, it further enriched my understanding of the evolution of this classical language.</p><p>For example, this French Indian coin from 1700s mentions the city name as புதுசசெரி (Puduchachery), but the people pronounced it as Puduch<b>ē</b>rry back in that time, whereas the modern script in the arch simply states புதுச்சேரி, same as how people used to say, (although English lacks the term for short and long letters for proper pronunciation in the arch).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406455[/ATTACH]</p><p>Same thing with this 1000 year old Chola inscription, the words are not spaced, letters not dotted, and some have slight variations, but the pronunciations and the meaning are the same as the modern language, and collecting Chola/Pandya era coins made me aware of this issue!</p><p>I came to know people didn&#039;t use dots because they used to write on palm leaves, and unlike scribbling, making dots would pierce them, and since stone inscriptions were copied from instructions on palm leaves, the resulting words also lacked dots, but certain words were pronounced as if dots were just implied and people simply read and understood them as such.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your unintended benefits of ancient coin collection or coin collection in general![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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