A Numismatic Manual: Or, Guide to the Study of Greek, Roman, and English Coins: with Plates from the OriginalsEffingham Wilson, 1832 - 170 עמודים |
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עמוד 33
... æra . The Egyptian æra commenced with the reign of Ptolemy I. The Seleucidæan æra commenced 312 years before Christ . The Augustan æra commenced 31 years before Christ . The Pompeian 63 years A. A. Abassus , or Abdera , or Abydus .
... æra . The Egyptian æra commenced with the reign of Ptolemy I. The Seleucidæan æra commenced 312 years before Christ . The Augustan æra commenced 31 years before Christ . The Pompeian 63 years A. A. Abassus , or Abdera , or Abydus .
עמוד 35
... Ptolemy the first , one would think , might be known by the style of the workmanship , as the coin which it resembles , and which reads ΣOTHPOΣ , is ex- ceedingly unlike the others ; but this is a subject which has puzzled the most ...
... Ptolemy the first , one would think , might be known by the style of the workmanship , as the coin which it resembles , and which reads ΣOTHPOΣ , is ex- ceedingly unlike the others ; but this is a subject which has puzzled the most ...
עמוד 38
... on the reverse . Second and third brass , R 1. The portraits on the coins of this prince , with the ram's horn encircling the ear , are not his , but those of Jupiter Ammon . Ptolemy Ceraunus , B. c . 281 .-- KEPAYNOY , 38 NUMISMATIC.
... on the reverse . Second and third brass , R 1. The portraits on the coins of this prince , with the ram's horn encircling the ear , are not his , but those of Jupiter Ammon . Ptolemy Ceraunus , B. c . 281 .-- KEPAYNOY , 38 NUMISMATIC.
עמוד 39
... Ptolemy Ceraunus , B. c . 281 .-- KEPAYNOY , with the head of Alexander , silver , R 6 . Meleagros , -280 . - MEAEAгPOY , gold , R 8 ; third brass , R 8 . Antipater , -280 . - ANTIMATPOY , gold , R 8 . Sosthenes , -280 . - ZOZOENOY ...
... Ptolemy Ceraunus , B. c . 281 .-- KEPAYNOY , with the head of Alexander , silver , R 6 . Meleagros , -280 . - MEAEAгPOY , gold , R 8 ; third brass , R 8 . Antipater , -280 . - ANTIMATPOY , gold , R 8 . Sosthenes , -280 . - ZOZOENOY ...
עמוד 41
... That of Ptolemy the first is somewhat larger than the rest , and the fabric is also different , but the others will , it is feared , never be identified , ex- cept those on which the surnames occur . The eagle MANUAL . 41.
... That of Ptolemy the first is somewhat larger than the rest , and the fabric is also different , but the others will , it is feared , never be identified , ex- cept those on which the surnames occur . The eagle MANUAL . 41.
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Alexander Antiochus ANTONINUS Antony Arsaces Augusta base silver bust Cæsar Cæsarea CHALCIS cities Cleopatra coinage Colonia Colonia Julia Commodus Constantine copper cross crown denarii didrachm Domitian drachm eagle Edward Edward III Elagabalus English coins farthing Felix full faced full-faced gold coins grains GREEK CIVIC COINS Greek coins groat half-crown half-groat half-penny half-shillings head of Apollo head of Jupiter hemidrachm Henry VII IMPERIAL COINS indented square inner circle INSULA king Laureated head legend letters lion Macedon Mark Antony medals Millingen monarchs Moneta moneyers Municipium obverse Officina Pecunia pellets pennies Philip Phoenicia pieces PLATE portrait prince Ptolemy quinarii rare Rarity regal coins reign restored by Titus Restored by Trajan ROMAN COINS rude Saxon scarce second and third second brass Sestertius Severus shillings Signata silver coins silver drachm silver tetradrachm Spain star struck testoon tetra tetradrachm third brass Varieties 3 Varieties Varieties Restored Wife
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עמוד 126 - It is enclosed by walls of great solidity, portions of which are supposed to be as old as the time of the Visigoths.
עמוד 77 - England. COL. CASILIN. Colonia Casilinum, Castellazo in Italy. COL. CL. PTOL. Colonia Claudia Ptolemais, Acre in Phoenicia. COL.
עמוד viii - You have on medals a long list of heathen deities, distinguished from each other by their proper titles and ornaments. You see the copies of several statues that have had the politest nations of the world fall down before them. You have here, too, several persons of a more thin and shadowy nature, as Hope, Constancy, Fidelity, Abundance, Honour, Virtue, Eternity, Justice, Moderation, Happiness, and, in short, a whole creation of the like imaginary substances. To these you may add the Genies of nations,...
עמוד 62 - A PARTH. RECVP. CivibuS et Signis Militaribus a Parthis Recuperatis. CN. Cneius. COEL. Coelius. CON. OB. Constantinopoli Obsignata, or Constantinopoli Officina secunda, or Conflata obryzo. COL. Colonia. CONS. svo. Conservator! suo. CONCORD. Concordia. CL. v. Clypeus Votivus. COMM.
עמוד ix - In devices of this nature one sees a pretty poetical invention, and may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser. Not to interrupt you, says Eugenius, I fancy it is this use of medals that has recommended them to several history painters, who, perhaps, without this assistance, would have found it very difficult to have invented such an airy species of beings, when they are obliged to put a moral virtue into colours...
עמוד vii - You here see the Alexanders, Caesars, Pompeys, Trajans, and the whole catalogue of heroes, who have many of them so distinguished themselves from the rest of mankind, that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character that authors have given us of him, and to try if we can find out in hia looks and features either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper, that discovers itself in the history of his...
עמוד 78 - AVG. DD Colonia Julia Concordia Apamea Augusta Decreto Decurionum COL. IVL. PATER. NAR. Colonia Julia Paterna Narbonensis COL. NEM. Colonia Nemausus COL. NICEPH. COND. Colonia Nicephorium Condita, in - Mesopotamia...
עמוד 141 - A very uncommon and singular coin, charged with the royal arms, but without a name. It is, by the make and size, a French gross, and is supposed to have been coined by the Duchess of Burgundy for Perkin Warbeck, when he set out to invade England, in the year 1494.
עמוד 79 - Colonia Romana Felix Aug. Flavia Caesarea Metropolis. The same. COL. ROM. Colonia Romulea, or Seville. COL. ROM. LVG. Colonia Romana Lugdunum. COL. RVS. LEG. vi. Colonia Ruscino Legio Sexta, at Roussillon in France.
עמוד 141 - ... in breadth. The seal is of the plate and wax type. On the obverse appears a figure of the emperor seated on his throne, with the sceptre in his right hand and the globe in his left; a shield, with the crowned imperial eagle, occupies the space on the one side of the throne, and a corresponding shield, with the crowned Bohemian lion with two tails, occupies the space on the other side; and round the margin runs the legend, Karolus quartus divina...