The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 19John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke Royal Numismatic Society., 1879 - Numismatics With v. 1 is bound; Horta, de, chevalier. Catalogue d'une partie de la collection de médailles. Londres, J. Wertheimer. |
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Andragoras Anne Boleyn appears artist bawbee bear Brit bust Carausius century Charles Chron Cochran-Patrick coinage coins of Elis copper crown currency dates denarii Didrachm dirhems drachm DUBLIN duke Eagle standing Edge plain Eleans Emperor England English engraved exergue five-shilling pieces forty-shilling piece gold coins grains Greek groat half-crown half-groats harp Hawkins Hemidrachm Henry VIII Hera HIB REX Hoblyn inscription Ireland Irish coins issued Italian medals King king's laureate legend letters Lord-Deputy and Council medalist merk Merovingian Metal Mint-mark minted monogram Nike Numismatic Numismatique Obv.-Bust Obv.-Eagle Obv.-Head of Zeus obverse olive-wreath Olympia paper Peloponnese penny period Phidias Pisanello plates portrait Queen reign Rev.-Eagle Rev.-FA reverse Roman Ruding Sallet Saxon sceattas Scotland Scottish serpent shilling silver coins sixpence sixty-shilling piece small cross specimens style ten-shilling piece thistle thunderbolt varieties Vasari Weight wreath Zeus الله
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Page 201 - March, in the second year of our reign. " By writ of Privy Seal, and of the date aforesaid by authority of Parliament.
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Page 176 - Nicholson says that the first Irish money coined in this reign was struck in the thirty-second year of that King, which falls in 1540 ; but I must beg leave to differ from that learned prelate, and to offer my reasons for it. I have a groat of this prince which has on one side the arms of England in a scutcheon, divided by a cross, and crowned with an arched crown, with this inscription, HENRIC...
Page 217 - The works of this master, whether in cameos with the lathe he has executed rilievi or intagli di cavo, or whether he produces dies in steel with the gravers, are of such perfect excellence and exhibit all the minutiae of art, rendered with such assiduous and patient care, that better could not even be imagined, and whoever shall desire to be amazed at the wonders performed by this Alessandro, let him examine a medal which that artist executed for Pope Paul III., the portrait of that Pontiff namely,...
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