Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 128
vicvs • m • sf • anglvs ■ dvx •mli •; the meaning of anglvs has not as yet been satisfactorilyexplained. The coinage of Florence is celebrated as being the first to in-troduce the general use of gold, which commenced as early as1252, a century earlier than the famous issue of gold nobles inEngland.… … COINS OF VENICE. the French and the Popes, then by the Germans and English,and were the first gold coins issued in Europe after the eighthcentury. The first copies of the Florentine gold not only bore the nameof Florins, from that of the city where they were first issued, butalso their types;…
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