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The coin collector (1896)

Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913 · London : G. Redway · leaf 112

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the first century B.C. There is a very short regalseries and a Roman imperial one, besides autonomouscivic money of Genua, Pessinus, Tavium, &c, fromwhich conclusions may be drawn as to the long survivalof cults relating to Zeus, Aphrodite, Dionysos, Askle-pios, Men, &c. Cappadocia was, in… … GREEK COINS those of the cities and of the Roman period, when Cap-padocia was a procuratorship. The prevailing religiousidea presented on them is the snow-capped and deifiedMount Argaeus, rising to an altitude of 13,000 feetabove the sea. Armenia is not known to have struck any coins priorto the…

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