A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins

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الصفحة 9 - Jewish community at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the fourth century with Ezra's mission according to the late chronology (398 BC).
الصفحة 130 - Chicago, 1964. The Greek Mint "On the Athenian tetradrcms of the 'new style' we find a number of abbreviations which seem to indicate the various officinae of workshops of the mint. In a time when all the coins were struck by hand there is nothing astonishing in the existence of a great number of workshops in the mint of a city of which the coinage was as extensive as the Athenian. Most of these abbreviations seem to represent names, possibly of gods or heroes after whom the various workshops were...
الصفحة 140 - ... give us the following exergual letters: — Coin of Diocletian (First Augustus) RP Coin of Maximian (Second Augustus) RS Coin of Constantius (First Caesar) RT Coin of Galerius (Second Caesar) RQ The R of course stands for the city name. The remaining letters are the initials of prima, secunda, etc. (officina). There were thus four workshops in Rome, one devoted to each of the four rulers. At Alexandria also at this same time there were apparently four workshops, but not devoted each to producing...
الصفحة vi - Le temps passe. Tout meurt. Le marbre même s'use. Agrigente n'est plus qu'une ombre, et Syracuse Dort sous le bleu linceul de son ciel indulgent; Et seul le dur métal que l'amour fit docile Garde encore en sa fleur, aux médailles d'argent, L'immortelle beauté des vierges de Sicile.
الصفحة 7 - Gyges, the founder of the dynasty of the Mermnadae and of the new Lydian empire, as distinguished from the Lydia of more remote antiquity, the first issues of the Lydian mint.
الصفحة 139 - Republican coins denote extra-Roman mints (KA for Capua and the like). When these mints were closed, letters, monograms, and symbols representing the monetary magistrates were placed on the coins. Finally, when it became the custom for the magistrates to sign at greater length, mint-marks properly so called were introduced. They have been classified by M. Babelon as: (1) Symbols (2) Latin letters or syllables (3) Greek letters (4) Monograms (5) Numbers, rising in large issues as high as CC, and on...
الصفحة 139 - ... magistrates to sign at greater length, mint-marks properly so called were introduced. They have been classified by M. Babelon as: (1) Symbols (2) Latin letters or syllables (3) Greek letters (4) Monograms (5) Numbers, rising in large issues as high as CC. and on the coins of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi (7) Dots, generally placed in a certain connexion with letters or symbols. The object of these various marks was the same as that served at Athens by the letters below the amphora. Towards the end...
الصفحة 140 - ABr represent three different workshops. The remaining letters put together read, in the case of Diocletian, IOBI, and in that of Maximian, HPKOYAI. These words represent the genitives of the Latin titles assumed by the two emperors, lovius and Herculius. A set of coins struck in Rome during the period of the tetrarchy with the legend SAC(ra)MON(eta) VRB(is) AVGG(ustorum) ET CAESS(arum) NN(ostrorum) give us the following exergual letters: — Coin of Diocletian (First Augustus) RP Coin of Maximian...
الصفحة 13 - ... later to Ravenna and Milan. Silly Head. The popular name for one of the varieties of the Cents of the United States issued in 1839. It has an idiotic looking head of Liberty on the obverse. Silver. The metal which has played the greatest part in the world's monetary systems. In ancient times it was used in a form much purer than that found in modern coins. It is generally supposed that it was first employed for coins in Aegina, about the seventh century BC From about the period of Alfred the...
الصفحة 139 - ... like). When these mints were closed, letters, monograms, and symbols representing the monetary magistrates were placed on the coins. Finally, when it became the custom for the magistrates to sign at greater length, mint-marks properly so called were introduced. They have been classified by M. Babelon as: (1) Symbols (2) Latin letters or syllables (3) Greek letters (4) Monograms (5) Numbers, rising in large issues as high as CC. and on the coins of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi (7) Dots, generally...

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