The Coin Collector's Manual: Comprising an Historical and Critical Account of the Origin and Progress of Coinage, from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman Empire; with Some Account of the Coinages of Modern Europe, More Especially of Great Brit, Volum 2Bell, 1897 |
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Side 378
... Nero , that " he had given in presents , bis et vicies millies sestertium . " SECOND AND THIRD BRONZE . The second and third bronze as they are termed , are rather parts of the As than of the sestertius ; but this is a point to which ...
... Nero , that " he had given in presents , bis et vicies millies sestertium . " SECOND AND THIRD BRONZE . The second and third bronze as they are termed , are rather parts of the As than of the sestertius ; but this is a point to which ...
Side 379
... Nero and Domitian , at the reduced weight of half an ounce , the unciæ , then called minimi , as I have stated , being only the twenty - fourth part of an ounce . The sestertius sustained no material decrease in weight till the reign of ...
... Nero and Domitian , at the reduced weight of half an ounce , the unciæ , then called minimi , as I have stated , being only the twenty - fourth part of an ounce . The sestertius sustained no material decrease in weight till the reign of ...
Side 398
... Nero exhibits Roman art in its highest form , as far as portraiture is concerned ; and his decursio type is , perhaps , the most favourable specimen of pictorial composition on the Roman coinage . It should be compared with the ...
... Nero exhibits Roman art in its highest form , as far as portraiture is concerned ; and his decursio type is , perhaps , the most favourable specimen of pictorial composition on the Roman coinage . It should be compared with the ...
Side 399
... Nero and Claudius , having gained a refinement and finish that scarcely replace it . The monetary artists of the period of the Antonines sought to restore the high and bold relief of the earlier epochs , and in some respects very ...
... Nero and Claudius , having gained a refinement and finish that scarcely replace it . The monetary artists of the period of the Antonines sought to restore the high and bold relief of the earlier epochs , and in some respects very ...
Side 407
... Nero ; so producing , at one operation , two rare coins , a Nero , and an Antoninus , both with reverses , never seen by the most experienced numismatist . With these cautions to the amateur I close my attempted account of the Greek and ...
... Nero ; so producing , at one operation , two rare coins , a Nero , and an Antoninus , both with reverses , never seen by the most experienced numismatist . With these cautions to the amateur I close my attempted account of the Greek and ...
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