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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8092209, member: 72790&quot;]Good points and for anyone claiming to know how to pronounce Latin, careful here. There is considerable debate, not all of it pleasant, over how Latin was pronounced in Classical Times (the period of most of our Ancient coins). So, if your denarius says &quot;VENI, VIDI, VICI&quot; (and it better not), do you pronounce the V as in modern English or as the English W ? What about the C? Is it a soft ch sound (as in church) or a hard C sound as in car? Believe me, in academia much ink, maybe even a little blood, has been spilled in this debate. By the way, I am curious about something that maybe some of our European members can resolve. How in European countries does one pronounce Latin, with the Italianate or ecclesiastical soft consonants (depending on the following vowel) or the hard pronunciation of the Classical version? And while we are at it. The pronunciation of Ancient and modern Greek is quite different, though the orthography not so much. In Europe, when talking numismatically, which one is used?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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