The American numismatical manual of the currency or money of the aborigines, and colonial, state, and United States coins. With historical and descriptive notices of each coin or series (1859)
Dickeson, Montroville Wilson · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 61
re a fruitful subject. A passage in Suetonius reports Caasars invasion ofBritain, as incited by the hope of finding pearls. We think the ambition of conquesthad much more to do with it. Pliny informs us that Cresar dedicated a breast-plateto Venus, ornamented with pearls, which he pretended to have… … L-N.ltitMaiUtfL. Lrtli PMiuli. ABORIGINAL COINS. 41 greeted the eyes of De Soto, when he first made his appearance among the aboriginesin the Valley of the Mississippi. The quantities found in the temples and villages,as related by Spanish and Portuguese historians, almost exceeds belief. Among the…
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