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 30
d fat sheep. It is true that in the sameconversation (Iliad, Book IX., line 365, etc.) Achilles also speaksof the gold and ruddy brass and bright iron, but not as if coinedinto money. Homers is perhaps the most remarkable work inthe world as a description of existing arts, dress, manners… … RING MONEY. ize him to mention it among the arts and furniture of the Greciancamp or the Trojan city at the period of his story, which is lo-cated at about the same date with our chronological location ofSamson and the judges of the Israelites. But it is also evident that gold and silver became…
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