Proceedings of the Numismatic SocietyJames Fraser, 1837 |
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Pagina 263
... fact that there was no national Egyptian coinage until that art was intro- duced in its perfection by the successors ... facts of the total absence of inscriptions in the native arrow - head character , which would have been unintel ...
... fact that there was no national Egyptian coinage until that art was intro- duced in its perfection by the successors ... facts of the total absence of inscriptions in the native arrow - head character , which would have been unintel ...
Pagina 269
... fact of there being no indication of an Egyptian coined currency previously to the era of these princes , notwithstanding the proverbial riches of the ancient Pharaohs , and of their cities , of Thebes , & c . , com- memorated by Homer ...
... fact of there being no indication of an Egyptian coined currency previously to the era of these princes , notwithstanding the proverbial riches of the ancient Pharaohs , and of their cities , of Thebes , & c . , com- memorated by Homer ...
Pagina 278
... fact of these Oriental coins having perfect reverses , fix them to an age long posterior to the early coins of Greece . The only money approaching the latter in appearance , are the Persian Darics ; but , from the circumstance of some ...
... fact of these Oriental coins having perfect reverses , fix them to an age long posterior to the early coins of Greece . The only money approaching the latter in appearance , are the Persian Darics ; but , from the circumstance of some ...
Pagina 289
... fact of silver being the only ma- terial of the earliest Grecian coins , renders self - evident . Copper was not coined by the states of Greece , until several centuries after the use of silver money the oldest copper coins of Athens ...
... fact of silver being the only ma- terial of the earliest Grecian coins , renders self - evident . Copper was not coined by the states of Greece , until several centuries after the use of silver money the oldest copper coins of Athens ...
Pagina 290
... facts mentioned certainly support history herein . We thus find a distinct medium of exchange , a distinct method of fabrication , with distinct results of art , together with a totally distinct standard of value in Greece and Italy ...
... facts mentioned certainly support history herein . We thus find a distinct medium of exchange , a distinct method of fabrication , with distinct results of art , together with a totally distinct standard of value in Greece and Italy ...
Parole e frasi comuni
alphabet ancient antiquity appear Archæological AUTHOR Bactrian BERGNE brass British coins British Museum cabinet Cæsar Carausius Catalogue Chair characters Charles Charles Roach Smith Claudius coinage coined money coins and medals coins struck collection comet connexion copper Council currency denarius ditto paid dynasty Eckhel EDWARD HAWKINS Egypt Egyptian elected emperor engraved Etruscan Eucratides Evans exhibited following presents Greece Greek Greek coins Grotefend Heliocles Henry hieroglyphic Indo-Bactrian inscriptions Joachim Lelewel John king learned legend letter London LORD LONDESBOROUGH Médailles medallion metal Monnoies numis Numismatic Numismatic Chronicle numismatic science Numismatic Society numismatist nummulites Oannes obolus obverse original paper penny period Pfister Phoenician Picardie pieces plates Presents were announced President princes Prinsep probably Proceedings reign remarkable represented reverse Roach Smith Royal Asiatic Society Ruding Sanscrit silver coins Société des Antiquaires specimens Street tion Vaux weight William writer
Brani popolari
Pagina 8 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Pagina 409 - Semi-diameter of the the Sun to the Northwards of the Way of the Earth. At which Time, had the Earth been there, the Comet would have had a Parallax equal to that of the Moon, as I take it. This is...
Pagina 416 - Simon's essay on Irish coins, and of the currency of foreign monies in Ireland; with Mr. Snelling's supplement...
Pagina 420 - The regulating Silver Coin made practicable and easie to the Government and Subject, humbly submitted to the Consideration of both Houses of Parliament, by a Lover of his Country.
Pagina 415 - Numismatique" has just been awarded by the French Institute to the author for this work. " Mr. Akerman's volume contains a notice of every known variety, with copious...
Pagina 392 - That she should flee as a bird unto the hill? 2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver : that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.
Pagina 416 - Tables of English Silver and Gold Coins: First published by Martin Folkes Esq., and now Re-printed, with Plates and Explanations, by the Society of Antiquaries, London, MDCCLXIH.
Pagina 405 - ... septentrionibus est, conspectum. Id oriebatur circa undecimam horam diei, clarumque et omnibus e terris conspicuum fuit. Eo sidere significari vulgus credidit Caesaris animam inter deorum immortalium numina receptam : quo nomine id insigne simulacro capitis ejus quod mox in foro consecravimus adjectum est.
Pagina 266 - This night are come out new farthings, weighing a quarter of an ounce, fine pewter, which is but the price of new pewter, that so the people may never hereafter fear to lose much by them ; with the harp on one side, and a crosse on the other, with TK above it,
Pagina 3 - Report on Excavations made on the site of the Roman Castrum at Lymne, in Kent, in 1850, with notes on the original plan and on the ancient state of the Ronmey Marshes.