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 42
specimens. We illustrate, however, coins ofvarious Eastern countries during the four centuries before theChristian era, from which the reader will be enabled to gather avery clear idea of the splendor to which the art was rapidlybrought. The period of Alexander the Great is one of great interest… … MACEDONIAN COINAGE. of many coins had continued in use, but hereafter it is notknown. We have now arrived at a period of high perfection in the artof coinage. In the reign of Philip II. of Macedon, commencing359 B.C., and continuing twenty-four years, some of the finestspecimens of ancient coinage…
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