A Numismatic Manual: Or, Guide to the Study of Greek, Roman, and English Coins: with Plates from the Originals

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Effingham Wilson, 1832 - 170 עמודים

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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...

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