ROMANIZATION IN LANGUAGE We may now proceed to survey the actual remains.

They may seem scanty, but they deserve examination.
First, in respect of language.

Even before the Claudian conquest of A.D.
43, British princes had begun to inscribe their coins with Latin words.
These legends are not merely blind and unintelligent copies, like the imitations of Roman legends on the early English _sceattas_.

The word most often used, REX, is strange to the Roman coinage, and must have been employed with a real sense of its meaning.

After A.D.43, Latin advanced rapidly.