Historia numorum : a manual of Greek numismatics / by Barclay V. Head.

  • Barclay Vincent Head
Date:
1887
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Credit: Historia numorum : a manual of Greek numismatics / by Barclay V. Head. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTANDA. Gold coins (aurum) are distinguished by the letters N. Electrum coins „ ,, „ EL. Silver coins (argentum) „ „ At. Billon and Potin coins (alloys of silver and bronze) by Bil. and Pot. Bronze coins (aes) JE. The disk of metal on which the types are struck is called the Flan. The front or face of a coin is called the Obverse. Obv. The back of the coin is called the Reverse. Rev. The principal device represented on the obv. or rev. is called the Type. Adjunct devices or secondary types are called Symbols. The area or space between the type and the circumference is called the Field. The lower portion of the area beneath the type and cut off from the rest of the field by a horizontal line is called the Fxergue. Portions of a coin which are sunk below the level of the surface of the field are said to be Incuse. CORRIGENDA. Page 39, line 15, for site read side. Page 53. line 7,for PYAAIl read APOAA(?). Page 53; l'ne 4 from bottom for AYK I ZKOZ read AYK I NOZ. Page 243, line 11, Demetrius. This coin, a cast of which from the specimen in the Hunter Collection I have only lately had an opportunity of examining, is false. The name of this Demetrius must therefore be struck out from the list of Thracian dynasts. Page 323, line 1 ,for HP AK A HZ read HPAKAE1AHZ. Page 323, line 8, for Roma? read Metellus ? Page 348, line 7 from bottom, for Buraecus read Buraicus. Page 400. The coins here attributed to Naxos in Crete must be transferred to Axus in the same island, the initial letter or N being a local form of the Digamma. See Halbherr, Mittheilungen des Arch. Inst, in Athen., Bd. XI. p. 84. Page 422, line 6 from bottom, for First read Fourth to First. Page 424, line 2,for T10N,TOY read TTONTOY. Page 462, 1. 20, for Caria read Lydia. Page 630, Germa Galatiae. The coins reading ACTIA DVSARIA probably belong to Bostra in Arabia (see Zeit.f. Num., 1886, p. 279). Page 651, line 15 from bottom,^?1 Tripolis b.c. 64 read Tripolis B.c. in. Page 674,1. 2, for from the Seleucid and Pompeian eras B.C. 312 and B.c. 64 read from the Seleucid era B.c. 312 or from the era of Tripolis B.c. III. (See J. P. Six, L'lrede Tripolis, Ann. de Num., 1886.) Page 689, line 22, for Marciniana read Macriniana. Page 783, line 24,for HP[EMENOZ] read HP[HMENOZ].
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