The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)
umsily and muchlarger than the piece of metal which was to receive the impres-sion. Hence the coin only represents a part of the subject,and as the metal sometimes fell on one side of the field, andsometimes on another, we have often to compare severalexamples of a British coin before we get the… … Greek and British Coins. of a Greek coin. The large figure is the obverse of a silvertetradrachm of Alexander the Great, in which that monarch isrepresented under the character of Hercules, with the head aiulmane of the lions skin over his head, and the claws tied in aknot under his neck and chin.…
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