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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... Spain and Gaul from Tetricus , is not remarkable , but the money of billon , a mixture of tin and silver , disappeared , and was replaced by copper silvered over , or plated . The bronze coinage is confined to the second and lesser ...
... Spain and Gaul from Tetricus , is not remarkable , but the money of billon , a mixture of tin and silver , disappeared , and was replaced by copper silvered over , or plated . The bronze coinage is confined to the second and lesser ...
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... Spain . Britain had been given up even in the reign of Honorius , and the Saxons , at the time of which we are speaking , ( say the end of the career of Witiges , 540 A.D. , ) were firmly established in possession of that island , so ...
... Spain . Britain had been given up even in the reign of Honorius , and the Saxons , at the time of which we are speaking , ( say the end of the career of Witiges , 540 A.D. , ) were firmly established in possession of that island , so ...
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... Spain , who issued gold money at that early period . The copper also was reformed in the reign of Anastasius , and an attempt made to issue a large coinage similar to the old Roman sestertius , as will be seen by the. 870 COINS OF THE ...
... Spain , who issued gold money at that early period . The copper also was reformed in the reign of Anastasius , and an attempt made to issue a large coinage similar to the old Roman sestertius , as will be seen by the. 870 COINS OF THE ...
Page 383
... Spain , * This gold has the head of Mars on the obverse , and an eagle on the reverse , and it is marked with the numerals XX . , which confirm Pliny's account that it went for twenty sesterces ( or quarter denarii ) . There is also the ...
... Spain , * This gold has the head of Mars on the obverse , and an eagle on the reverse , and it is marked with the numerals XX . , which confirm Pliny's account that it went for twenty sesterces ( or quarter denarii ) . There is also the ...
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... Spain , Gaul , and Britain , previous to their subjection to the Romans . The Roman coinage circulating in Britain was of the same character as that of the rest of the western portion of the empire ; and of Roman coins , bearing types ...
... Spain , Gaul , and Britain , previous to their subjection to the Romans . The Roman coinage circulating in Britain was of the same character as that of the rest of the western portion of the empire ; and of Roman coins , bearing types ...
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