The Coin Collector's Manual, Or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of Coins: Compromising an Historical and Critical Account of the Origin and Progress Ofcoinage, from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen2H. G. Bohn, 1853 - 4 páginas |
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Página 1 - ... historical records, coins have proved themselves of the highest importance, and even from the very infancy of the art, their valuable testimony commences. To the Greeks we owe, if not the invention, at all events, the very early general extension of a circulating medium in this form, and on their coins of the very earliest period we find records of the migrations, the mythology, and the manners and state of civilisation of this great and interesting people. For instance, on a gold coin of the...
Página 10 - Argos first caused silver to be coined in the island of -<Egina; and as the gold coinage of Asia Minor is generally believed to have preceded the silver coinage of .^Egina, or that of any other part of Greece, I shall first treat of the earliest known gold coins. These were doubtless adjusted to some well known and generally acknowledged weight or standard, and so received the name of stater, a Greek word signifying standard. This standard appears to have been a weight corresponding to two drachmae...
Página 4 - state gazette," on which all the truly great events of the empire were periodically published; and when we find such announcements as Egypt® Capta on coins of Augustus, struck on the conquest of Egypt.
Página 2 - Is the rude image of the seal exhibited in bold relief, while the other bears merely a rough indent, the mark of the punch, by means of which the lump of gold was driven into the die. The first advance shown in taste and skill is in the form of the punch mark, which is made more regular. The coins of some of the states were impressed with symbols of their deities, or some object sacred to them ; as, Ceres, by the ear of barley ; Bacchus, by the bunch of grapes ; Diana, by the stag.
Página 5 - ... siege pieces," struck without coining apparatus in different parts of the kingdom whither fluctuating fortunes drove the unfortunate prince, serving as monuments of almost each disaster or temporary triumph ; among which not the least remarkable are...