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 44
the illustrations given inthis volume abundantly testify. In all the East, which was thenthe civilized world, the fine arts were progressing to a goldenage. Phidias had completed the Parthenon, and a rare coin ofan early time shows a rude view of the Acropolis (Plate III.,Figure 3), the statue of… … COINAGE OF THE JEWS. riod of the successors of Alexander. That old land—first in artsand sciences, far in advance of all the world in architecture, sculp-ture, painting, music, and every thing that adorns civilization—seems never to have felt the necessity of a circulating mediumother than the…
Numismatics · Medals · Seals (Numismatics)
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