English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins

_Author of “Half-Hours among some English Antiquities;” “Grave Mounds and their Contents;” “The Ceramic Art in Great Britain;” “Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office;” “The S...

Among devices the arms of Trade-guilds or Companies are most numerous, and a brief description of those most commonly met with will be found of great service to the collector. T...

OBSIDIONAL or SIEGE PIECES. These rude coins, if coins they can be called, were struck by the king, and those favourable to his cause, to supply that monarch with the necessary...

OBVERSE.--_Type._ As his predecessors’; the only difference being the alteration of name in the legend; on some he has a cross on the breast; mint marks, a boar’s head, and rose...

_Obverse_, bust, much varied, on some mitred, with or without sceptre, and name, as CNVT, REX, RECX, RECCX, or RXC; A, AN, ANGL, or ANGLORUM, etc. _Reverse_, various crosses, et...

REVERSE.--_Type._ Crown, St. George on horseback, undraped, helmeted, loose vest flying behind, in his right hand a dagger, his left holding the reins; under the horse, a dragon...

This applies not only to Greek coins but to every class. Thus, for instance, there are collectors of English coins who confine their attention to the Anglo-Saxon period; others...

and the like, in two lines divided from each other in a tablet across the field of the coin, appear to have been struck by Tasciovanus at some town of mintage indicated by RICON...

Dates are not found on Greek coins before the age of Alexander the Great, and even after his time they are of rare occurrence, except on certain Asiatic series and on the money...

The following is a list of the Roman emperors, and other members of the Imperial families, arranged in the order in which it is usual to classify their coins, which is, as far a...