Records of Roman history, from Cnæus Pompeius to Tiberius Constantinus, as exhibited on the Roman coins

Author(s): Francis Hobler
Category: Coins & Currency
Publisher: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons
Publish year: 1860
ISBN: 9678000003201
Number of Pages: 411

The points of history illustrated by coins are not confined to Architecture and War, although these two subjects prominently attract the notice of the Numismatist, for a well-arranged and selected series is valuable for many other branches of information. Indeed, the author think that a Cabinet of Coins, though it be chosen with no other end in view than the compilation of a chronological table of events, is a necessary adjunct to every institution boasting the possession of historical works of reference. There are various subjects illustrated by coins which the reader will :find treated of at some length in the body of this work .

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Records of Roman history, from Cnæus Pompeius to Tiberius Constantinus, as exhibited on the Roman coins

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