The Coin Collector's Manual: 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 1Bell, 1897 |
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... COLONIES OF GREECE , EXHIBITING VARIOUS AND PECULIAR MODES OF PRIMITIVE WORKMANSHIP The incused Coinage of Magna Græcia The flat Coinage of Populonia . 7 21 CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF THE ART OF COINING , FROM THE PERIOD WHEN THE PUNCH ...
... COLONIES OF GREECE , EXHIBITING VARIOUS AND PECULIAR MODES OF PRIMITIVE WORKMANSHIP The incused Coinage of Magna Græcia The flat Coinage of Populonia . 7 21 CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF THE ART OF COINING , FROM THE PERIOD WHEN THE PUNCH ...
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... Colonies of Greece Coins of Sicily of the finest period 49 • 53 56 • The Coins of Carthage 62 • Coins of the finest period of the Greek Cities of the South of Italy 66 CHAPTER VII . REGAL COINS OF THE GREEK SERIES Of the distinction ...
... Colonies of Greece Coins of Sicily of the finest period 49 • 53 56 • The Coins of Carthage 62 • Coins of the finest period of the Greek Cities of the South of Italy 66 CHAPTER VII . REGAL COINS OF THE GREEK SERIES Of the distinction ...
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... colonies of Italy , Sicily , Spain , and Gaul , also offer an endless variety of interesting illustrations of history , biography , and the progress of the arts , as will be seen when , in the ensuing pages , we have to treat of them in ...
... colonies of Italy , Sicily , Spain , and Gaul , also offer an endless variety of interesting illustrations of history , biography , and the progress of the arts , as will be seen when , in the ensuing pages , we have to treat of them in ...
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... colonies in Asia Minor were founded by Greeks from the Peloponnesus , about the eleventh century before the Christian era ; and the city of Miletus was taken from the Carians , who were , like the Greeks themselves , of Pelasgic origin ...
... colonies in Asia Minor were founded by Greeks from the Peloponnesus , about the eleventh century before the Christian era ; and the city of Miletus was taken from the Carians , who were , like the Greeks themselves , of Pelasgic origin ...
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... colonies of Asia Minor , are best entitled to the merit of the important invention of coined money ; or , indeed , whether even the Persians may not rather be entitled to that honour ; but by comparing the fabric of some of the earliest ...
... colonies of Asia Minor , are best entitled to the merit of the important invention of coined money ; or , indeed , whether even the Persians may not rather be entitled to that honour ; but by comparing the fabric of some of the earliest ...
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