An Essay on MedalsJames Dodsley, 1784 - 324 pages |
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An Essay on Medals: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Ancient and ... John Pinkerton Affichage du livre entier - 1808 |
An Essay on Medals: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Ancient and ... John Pinkerton Affichage du livre entier - 1808 |
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Aegina almoſt ancient coins antiquity appear Auguftus becauſe beſt brafs braſs buft cabinet Cæfar Caracalla carats cities coinage Commodus common confular copper copper coin crown denarius drachm Egypt Elagabalus emperor Engliſh engraved fame farthings fave feems feen feries fhall fhilling fhould fide filver filver coins firft firſt fize fmall fome rev fometimes France ftate ftruck ftudy fubject fucceffors fuch fuperior fuppofed fymbols Gallienus gold and filver gold coins Grecian Greek coins groat Hadrian half half-groat Henry Henry VIII hiſtory imperial impreffion inftances Ireland James James II king laft laſt legend likewife marks medallifts medallions medals metal modern moft moſt muſt obfervable obolus obverfe ounce pafs penny pieces portrait prefent prince publiſhed quinarius rare reign reverſe Roman coins RRRR ſcarce ſcience Scotifh Scotland ſmall thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Trajan uſed vafe vaft weight whofe wife
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Page 31 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 218 - ... UNITED TO PROTECT. The shilling might be charged with a ship of war convoying a merchant vessel, WEALTH AND POWER : the sixpence with an oak in a storm, STRONGER FROM THE TEMPEST. The halfpenny may remain as it is, with regard to the impression, only doubling the size of the coin: the Britannia should hold a trident in her right hand and let the other recline upon the helm of a ship, instead of holding both aloft, with impertinent articles in each, a posture very absurd, and unknown to the ancients.
Page 218 - What of her olive branch, with which she sits, like an old lady in an old picture with a flower in her hand ? The farthing, of the size of the present halfpenny, might present an husbandman sowing, with this legend, BY INDUSTRY SMALL THINGS GROW GREAT. But any effectual improvement of our coinage must be left till God help us ; together with the more important improvements of the police of London, of our waste lands, and of parliamentary representation.
Page 230 - Of the Roman consular coins not very many have ever been forged. The celebrated silver denarius of Brutus, with the cap of liberty and two daggers, is the chief instance of a consular coin of which a counterfeit is known. But it is easily rejected by this mark : in the true coin the cap of liberty is below the guard or hilt of the daggers; in the false the top of it rises above tin, t hilt. The imperial series of medals is the grand object of modern medallic forgeries; and the' deception was at first...
Page 57 - Indian stone called the blood-stone. These rusts are all, when the real product of time, as hard as the metal itself, and preserve it much better than any artificial varnish could have done; concealing at the same time not the most minute particle of the impression of the coin.
Page 217 - The crown-piece might bear Liberty, Agriculture, and Commerce, UNITED TO BLESS. The half-crown, the king, a peer, and a commoner, emblematic of our happy constitution, with the legend UNITED TO PROTECT. The shilling might be charged with a ship of war convoying a merchant vessel, WEALTH AND POWER; the six-pence with an oak in a storm, STRONGER FROM THE TEMPEST. The half-penny may remain as it is with regard to the impression, only doubling the size...
Page 79 - Armenia, appears in a coin extant of him in a conic cap, with a diadem around it. Juba the father has a singular crown, like a conic cap all hung with pearls. The successors of Alexander...
Page 27 - ... with equal workmanship, which swarm on the medals of that prince. Yet from his time down to Posthumus, coins of admirable workmanship are to be found.
Page 217 - Britiih coin upon thefe principles, the obverfe might throughout, as at prefent, contain the king's portrait, but without armour, or laurel crown, till he wears them. Around would run the illuftrious title, GEORGE III. KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND : the other titles, of which the initials cut...
Page 184 - On the obverse of this piece there are portraits of Francis and Mary, face to face, with three legends around them, the outermost containing their titles ; the middle one the following sentence : IIORA NONA DOMINUS JH 8.