The Numismatic ChronicleRoyal Numismatic Society., 1885 With v. 1 is bound; Horta, de, chevalier. Catalogue d'une partie de la collection de médailles. Londres, J. Wertheimer. |
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Page 66 - ... Numismatic Journal and the Numismatic Chronicle, have helped to place upon trustworthy record full accounts of discoveries such as the zeal of practical numismatists have succeeded in getting access to. In earlier times, however, it is tantalising to find the bare fact of the discoveries only recorded ; as if science and curiosity were satisfied and cared to make no further inquiry. Through the long Dark and Middle Ages such discoveries must have been made yearly, but regarded only for their...
Page 148 - In Gaul this was especially the case, and the whole of the gold coinage of that country may be said to consist of imitations, more or less rude and degenerate, of the Macedonian stater.
Page 6 - I am glad to see that one of our members, Mr. GC Williamson, of Guildford, has it in contemplation to issue either a supplement to Boyne or a revised edition of his work. I trust that his appeal to the numerous collectors throughout the country has been met in such a manner as to encourage him to undertake the task. -These memorials of a bygone generation of traders, though not of the highest numismatic interest, throw much light on the manners and customs of the time, and to the local historian...
Page 66 - Cantiana, so contrary to the secretiveness which often, in similar discoveries, obstructs scientific research, will be appreciated not only by the Kent Society, but by all kindred institutions, numismatists, and antiquaries. The finding of buried hoards of Roman coins from times immemorial is a well-known fact; but not generally considered in its historical signification as it deserves to be. In our own time, and in the last two centuries, the records of discoveries of hoards of Roman coins are very...
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