ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

SINCE the foregoing sheets were sent to press, the author has been informed that the shilling of Henry VII., mentioned at p. 144 as sold for 37. 11s., was not in good preservation. The shilling of this king would, if well preserved, bring upwards of ten pounds.

The pennies attributed to William the Second are much scarcer than those assigned to the Conqueror.

The half-pennies of John are more rare than his pennies.

The half-groat of Richard II. is, by far, the rarest of that king's coins.

The pennies of Stephen and Henry, and of Eustace, son of Stephen (p. 132), are extremely

rare.

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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

At a public sale of the coins of the late Mr. Dimsdale, the banker, the Oxford crown with the city under the horse, was knocked down at sixty-nine pounds. At the same time the rial of Mary brought sixty-three pounds, and the rial of Elizabeth twenty-one pounds ten shillings.

A friend of the author is of opinion, that the coins of Henry VII., with the head in profile, are the first English money bearing a likeness of the sovereign.

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

THE Vignette is engraved from a very beautiful gold coin of Hiero II. of Syracuse, in the possession of Mr. Till, of Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, an extensive dealer in coins and medals, to whom I am indebted for some valuable hints respecting the coins of this country, as well as for the loan of several beautiful specimens.

PLATE I.

GREEK CIVIC COINS.

No. 1. Silver of Egina. These coins are found of many sizes.-No. 2. Brass of Rhodes. The reverse of this coin exhibits the improvement in the early Greek coinage, and No. 3 shews the further progress of the art. -No. 4. Silver of Thebes.-No. 5. One of the Cistophori of Pergamus mentioned by Cicero, and referred to in Section 2 of this work.-Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9. Silver of Tarentum, Histiæa, Athens, and Corinth, or, as some suppose, Carthage.