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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... prince , serving as monuments of almost each disaster or temporary triumph ; among which , not the least remarkable are the great twenty shilling pieces of silver , coined at Oxford , from the plate given up by the heads of colleges to ...
... prince , serving as monuments of almost each disaster or temporary triumph ; among which , not the least remarkable are the great twenty shilling pieces of silver , coined at Oxford , from the plate given up by the heads of colleges to ...
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... prince , though of another branch , termed the Mermnadæ , was also a lateral descendant of the Heraclidæ ; he flourished between 755 and 700 B.C. , and to him or his immediate successors the earliest gold coinage of Lydia may possibly ...
... prince , though of another branch , termed the Mermnadæ , was also a lateral descendant of the Heraclidæ ; he flourished between 755 and 700 B.C. , and to him or his immediate successors the earliest gold coinage of Lydia may possibly ...
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... prince , but the remarks contained in an interesting article on the subject by Mr. Borrel , inevitably lead to the supposition that such was not the case , but that these coins were the money of the Æginetans themselves , while those of ...
... prince , but the remarks contained in an interesting article on the subject by Mr. Borrel , inevitably lead to the supposition that such was not the case , but that these coins were the money of the Æginetans themselves , while those of ...
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... prince , the period of whose reign is well known , makes it a most important numismatic monument . The name is that of Alexander I. , King of Macedonia , who reigned from about the year 500 to 454 B.C. The inscrip- tion stands AAEZANAPO ...
... prince , the period of whose reign is well known , makes it a most important numismatic monument . The name is that of Alexander I. , King of Macedonia , who reigned from about the year 500 to 454 B.C. The inscrip- tion stands AAEZANAPO ...
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... prince mentioned in history , and it conse- quently makes a most interesting monument in numismatic chronology . The recently - discovered coins , however , of a Getas , king of the Edoneans , a prince whose name has only been recovered ...
... prince mentioned in history , and it conse- quently makes a most interesting monument in numismatic chronology . The recently - discovered coins , however , of a Getas , king of the Edoneans , a prince whose name has only been recovered ...
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