The Coin Collector's Manual: Or, Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of Coins; Comprising an Historical and Critical Account of the Origin and Progress of Coinage, from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman Empire, with Some Account of the Coinages of Modern Europe, More Especially of Great Britain, Volume 2George Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... Latin , or Roman mintage , the silver and large brass are common . The example of the first bronze of this reign described below was apparently struck on the occasion of a great plague , said to have travelled from Ethiopia , and which ...
... Latin , or Roman mintage , the silver and large brass are common . The example of the first bronze of this reign described below was apparently struck on the occasion of a great plague , said to have travelled from Ethiopia , and which ...
Page 371
... Latin inscriptions become partially Greek and the titles also are Grecianised , as on the coins of Leo the Wise , on which the legend stands , LEOn EnX® EVSEBES BASILEVS ROMAIwn ; on some LEOn En EO BASILEVS ROMEN ; and on others ...
... Latin inscriptions become partially Greek and the titles also are Grecianised , as on the coins of Leo the Wise , on which the legend stands , LEOn EnX® EVSEBES BASILEVS ROMAIwn ; on some LEOn En EO BASILEVS ROMEN ; and on others ...
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... Latin characters and terms , being sometimes all Greek . AH BAGAOA The last two emperors died bravely , as became the last representatives of the great Roman empire , defending the walls of Constantinople , and the last one has left ...
... Latin characters and terms , being sometimes all Greek . AH BAGAOA The last two emperors died bravely , as became the last representatives of the great Roman empire , defending the walls of Constantinople , and the last one has left ...
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... Latin word pendo , to weigh others consider that pecunia is the parent word . It was intended that a pound , Tower , should make 240 pennies , giving 24 grains each , but this weight was gradually decreased by the successive princes ...
... Latin word pendo , to weigh others consider that pecunia is the parent word . It was intended that a pound , Tower , should make 240 pennies , giving 24 grains each , but this weight was gradually decreased by the successive princes ...
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... Latin sicilicus , which signified a quarter of an ounce ; others to a Saxon word meaning a scale , or measure . The mark was a Danish term of computation , introduced about the time of Alfred ; it was then valued 428 COINS OF THE ANG LO ...
... Latin sicilicus , which signified a quarter of an ounce ; others to a Saxon word meaning a scale , or measure . The mark was a Danish term of computation , introduced about the time of Alfred ; it was then valued 428 COINS OF THE ANG LO ...
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