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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society
By Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
Published by Bernard Quaritch, 1893
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jan 22, 2008

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Contents

247
Hippias, Euboea, Persian wars
255
36
Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ceolnoth
46
Edward III, groat, pence
60
Paracelsus, Huvishka, Indo-Scythians
129
White Huns, Andragoras, Sassanian
220
Peisistratus, burh, Neapolis
259
West Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, South Saxons
267
Eadberht, Ruthwell Cross, kings of Northumbria
273
Aachen, Earl of Cornwall, Richard of Cornwall
282
Batchworth, Napoleonic Medal, David d'Angers
34
72
Pushtu, Persian Empire
149
Parthian, Sallet
228
monometallism, Louis XIII, Byzantium
234
Peisistratus, Batchworth, Napoleonic Medal
336
Lycian, DENARIIS, Indian coinage
11
coinages of Asia, Herr Pastor, Demetrius Poliorcetes

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President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were read and confirmed. The... - Page 17

Islands ; and the lowest (c) those of Italy, Sicily, the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, and Western Europe. Each of the seven historical compartments thus offers in its three geographical sections a complete view of the coins current throughout the civilized world during that particular century or period, the whole forming a series of historically successive tableaux. - Page 80

Reg." and for the reverse the Ensigns Armorial of the United Kingdom contained in a Shield surmounted by the Royal Crown and surrounded by the Collar of the Garter, with the inscription " Fid. Def. Ind. Imp." together with the words - Page 151

and for the reverse the respective figures " 4," " 3 " " 2," " 1," (according to the denomination or value of the piece), in the centre, with the date of the year placed across the figure, and encircled with an oak wreath surmounted by the Royal Crown. - Page 152

Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders which we have given for that purpose ; we have, therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this our royal proclamation ; and we do hereby ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of gold money so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful money of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called - Page 152

Council, shall from time to time make for his and their guidance therein: Provided nevertheless, and we do hereby reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, our and their right and authority to disallow... - Page 151

PENSK," with the inscription, "FID: DEF: IND: IMP:" together with the words " HALF-CROWN," and the date of the year, with a graining upon the edge. (3... - Page 151

Ind. Imp.," and for the reverse the image of Saint George armed, sitting on horse-back, attacking the dragon with a sword, and a broken spear upon the ground, and the date of the year, with a graining upon the edge... - Page 151

Piece should have the same obverse and reverse impression and inscription in all respects sis the Five Pound Piece, with a graining upon the edge ;' and that every Sovereign should have the same obverse and reverse impression and inscription in all respects as the Five Ponnd Piece, with a graining upon the edge ; and that every Half-Sovereign should have for the obverse impression the aforesaid effigy, with the inscription "Victoria Dei Gratia... - Page 151

Money so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful Money of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called " Sovereigns or Twenty Shilling Pieces... - Page 152

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Eretria - Page 256
I think we are also justified in supposing that Eretria would be the first place visited by Peisistratus when expelled from Athens. ...
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Thasos - Page 242
It would further seem that he acquired authority over Thasos itself, which would explain the occurrence of an alpha on at least one of the earliest ...
more pages: 85 257
Aachen - Page 278
The reverse type, belonging more especially to Aachen, may represent Charlemagne supporting the cathedral of Aachen, which he founded, and in which he ...
more pages: 281
Kabul - Page 171
Thomas supposes that the lord of Kabul may have been conquered by the Sassanian king, or have ceded a province to him. ...
more pages: 174 30
Edessa - Page 236
The history of the city of Edessa, the key of the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates, has for nearly two centuries occupied the attention of ...
Athens - Page 157
We learn from the recently discovered work on the polity of Athens that Pisistratus founded a colony near the river Strymon ; this colony was ...
more pages: 256
Wettingen - Page 149
The convents of Muri and Wettingen claimed the right of coinage even in gold, and there is a fine medal of Christopher, Abbot of Wettingen, ...
Kleive - Page 36
apparently of ash, at but. a little distance below the surface of the ground, less thin thirty yards from the road leading from Molde to Kleive. ...
Derby - Page 12
The most remarkable among the coins was a penny of ^Ethelred i I . struck at Derby, having on its obverse the Agnus Dei, and on the reverse the Holy ...
more pages: 221
Algiers - Page 308
After his bombardment of Algiers and subjugation of the Dey, he was created viscount and received the thanks of Parliament. ...
more pages: 78
Peshawar - Page 184
who conquered Gandhara, and placed his son in the government of Peshawar, while he returned to the westward to repel an inroad of the White Huns. ...
more pages: 115
Cologne - Page 26
the summer of 1890 a hoard of coins was discovered by the workmen employed in excavating the foundations for a new church at Fischenich, near Cologne. ...
more pages: 34
Hertford - Page 226
the Benefica, and the Lea ; and in the same year, shortly afterwards, he constructed the other burh at Hertford, on the south side of the Lea. ...
more pages: 285
Basel - Page 62
rich Canon Von Lichtenfels refused to pay his fee, Paracelsus quarrelled with the magistrate because of an adverse judgment, and had to quit Basel. ...
more pages: 64
Kaithal - Page 97
As the Greek Kambistholi and the Sanskrit Kapistlutla have been shortened to Kaithal, so Kaik&n may be accepted as a regular abbreviation of the ...
more pages: 102
Melle - Page 231
Observations on the silver mines and the mint of Melle under the Carlovingians. The writer attributes to this mint, an insignificant place in Poitou, ...
Paris - Page 234
Babelon, the learned and indefatigable Keeper of the Cabinet des Medailles de la Bibliotheque nationale at Paris, has conferred a benefit upon ...
more pages: 67
Canterbury - Page 221
By a slip of the pen the author of the paper has assigned this coin to Canterbury. In an account of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins found in Meath, ...
more pages: 52
Berlin - Page 5
but until now had no examples of the smaller denominations, which, however, are well represented in the cabinets of Berlin i3 and Paris. ...
more pages: 335
Oxford - Page 227
if not beyond all cavil, may still be regarded as founded on reasonably safe grounds, especially as coins struck at Oxford occurred in the same Find. ...
more pages: 223
Seraing - Page 325
In 1816 he founded the immense manufactories of Seraing, near Liege, in which 2000 workmen found employment. The works belonged jointly to him and to ...
Isagarh - Page 97
General Baptiste changed the name to Isagarh, but the people adhere to the old name. The date of the great Aryan migration, which gave the dominant ...
London - Page 33
groats and nobles of Edward III and Henry VI were quite as heavy in weight and of as good and tasteful design and workmanship as those of London. ...
more pages: 32
Herat - Page 208
unhesitatingly regards as an abbreviation of Ntaata, the name of a town in the province of Margiana, probably on the site of the present Herat. ...
more pages: 110
Bremgarten - Page 149
but it contains within its limits the ancient town of Windisch, the Roman Vindonissa, the two little free districts of Bremgarten and Mellingen, ...
Rome - Page 75
a very important find of denarii and tetradrachms hitherto attributed in part to the first and in part to the second revolt of the Jews against Rome. ...
more pages: 101
Stockholm - Page 295
He died at Stockholm, 1854. Polish citizens had this memorial made in acknowledgment of his sympathy with their cause and friendship for Polish exiles ...
more pages: 333
Multan - Page 183
The short legend on the reverse seems to read Borzo, for Bago or Vasu, as we learn from the later coins of Vasu Deva, king of Multan, whose name is ...
more pages: 187
Brussels - Page 322
Thomas Cutler and executed in Brussels. It was used in 1883, but since then has been replaced by another medal of English manufacture. ...
more pages: 319
Shahpura - Page 339
We find here a gold mohur of Shah 'Alam, struck at Shahjahanabad, attributed to Shahpura, without any reason whatever, except, no doubt, the fact that ...
Angers - Page 305
There is also one with tha name James Augustus Washington, dated 1831 ; he is stated, in the catalogue of the Musee David, at Angers,.
more pages: 301
Jerusalem - Page 231
and she secured the friendship of the Emperor Heraclius by restoring the wood of the Holy Cross which had been carried off from Jerusalem by Chosroes ...
more pages: 75
Vienna - Page 289
Hejde, of Vienna, and lastly, Gustav Eberlein's medal on the silver wedding of the Crown Prince Frederic in 1883. ...
more pages: 288
Megara - Page 233
The obelisk represented on certain bronze coins of Byzantium is compared with a similar obelisk on coins of Megara, the mother city of Byzantium ; and ...
Taxila - Page 188
Towards the middle of the seventh century the Karkota kings of Kashmir got possession of Taxila and the country of the Salt Range.5 The Shahis then ...
more pages: 110
Cambridge - Page 21
Loring, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in his travels in Arcadia during the last three years. Most of them were found and brought to him by ...
Chitral - Page 187
I conclude therefore that they retired to the north into Chitral and Gilgit to the west of the Indus, and to Pakhali and Kashmir to the east of the ...
more pages: 185
Kalabagh - Page 101
the Jhelam and the Indus ; and as the salt mines are found also at Kalabagh, the name of Albania may have included territory to the west of the Indus. ...
Nabha - Page 97
The Sikh Rajas of Patiala, Jhind, and Nabha are Jats, and so are the Raja of Bharatpur and the Rana of Dholpur on the Chambal. ...
Hanover - Page 325
Treaty of Amiens broken by England " in May 1803, and French occupation of Hanover. Napoleonic medal. ...
more pages: 292
Hanau - Page 26
amongst other rarities, an early gold coin of Rostock, the 1624 dollar of Hanau, near Frankfort, and a very rare gold gulden of Brandenburg. ...
Amiens - Page 316
In the Salon, 1802, was a model for a medal on the peace of Amiens, and for other medals of the nineteenth century see Millin, PI. ...
more pages: 310
Graz - Page 25
dying in July of the following year at Graz, in Styria. A list of thirty-two numismatic papers contributed by him to various periodicals is given in ...
Plymouth - Page 240
Lawson, CB, among the odds and ends of a sale of old furniture at Plymouth. Evidently both the auctioneer and his clients were totally ignorant of ...
Himora - Page 233
The cock and hen on the coins of Himora he also explains as the thank-offerings of the convalescent. The •word ? OTHP accompanying the Nymph offering ...
Copenhagen - Page 22
Our specimen is apparently identical with the one at Copenhagen, but differs slightly from all the others. The type is not in the British Museum ...
Dublin - Page 15
Recent unrecorded Finds of James II's brass money near Dublin, with notes. By Dr. W. Frazer. From the Author. 4. Transactions of the Royal Irish ...
more pages: 342
Gloucester - Page 132
and Gloucester — were almost as likely as those of London to have the duty of engraving some of the dies for the king's coinage committed to them. ...
Brugg - Page 149
presents a remarkably well executed Virgin and Child on the obverse, while one of Brugg gives the date 1657, and at Zoffingen one dated 1627 occurs. ...
Stafford - Page 227
however, I have published a penny of ^Ethelstan struck hy MANNA MoT oN ToMIEARDDE, and the same king coined at Derby, Nottingham, and Stafford. ...
more pages: 223
Apollonia - Page 72
Thus it can boast of 147 coins of Apollonia, against 92 in the British Museum, and of as many as 848 coins of Dyrrhachium against 225 in the English ...
Edinburgh - Page 5
current example was coined, and proofs of the shilling and sixpence of 1707 struck at Edinburgh, as well as a proof of the ordinary sixpence of 1707. ...
Portsmouth - Page 262
In 501 Port is said to have landed at Portsmouth, which was no doubt the Portus of the Romans, and received its name long before. ...
Mathura - Page 193
All the copper Kushan coins of Mathura and Sankisa have BIAO or BIFO. I incline, therefore, rather to doubt the existence of any early Kushan king ...
more pages: 167
Munich - Page 24
It is not in the British Museum, but is similar to a specimen at Munich published by Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner (Num. ...
Naples - Page 26
The most important work of Minervini was, I believe, his Saggio di osservazioni numismatiche, in quarto, published at Naples in 1856. ...
Warsaw - Page 325
He died at Warsaw in 1840, and is regarded as the maker of the industrial town of Seraing, containing now 31000 inhabitants. ...
Gwalior - Page 187
The White Huns had pushed their conquests into Sindh and Malwa, and even into Gwalior and the valley of the Ganges. ...
Birmingham - Page 310
He made some beautiful pattern coins for Louis XVI. ; worked for Boulton at the Soho works, Birmingham, 1790 — 1801. ...
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Gilgit - Page 187
I conclude therefore that they retired to the north into Chitral and Gilgit to the west of the Indus, and to Pakhali and Kashmir to the east of the ...
Amsterdam - Page 37
Societies is that of the Netherlands, just founded at Amsterdam, which will be cordially welcomed by its elder sisters, including our own Society. ...
more pages: 83
York - Page 224
In AD 918 she obtained possession of Leicester by treaty, and the men of York covenanted to surrender to her. But in that same year, ...
more pages: 10
Brunswick - Page 327
(of Brunswick ?). 117A. The Brunswick War Medal for Waterloo and Quatrebras, 1815. Obv.— " Friedrich Wilhelm Herzog." Bust of the Duke of Brunswick to ...
Malaga - Page 320
Naval Engagement off Malaga, 1704. Medal struck about 1820 for the Comte d'Artois (afterwards King Charles X.), in honour of the Comte do Toulouse, ...
Nottingham - Page 222
Two of these towns, Derby and Nottingham, were among the five boroughs of the Dane-law, and Derby, together with- Leicester (of which place no such ...
Venezia - Page 37
I may just mention one Italian volume, Le monete di Venezia, by Sig. Nicolo Papadopoli, which gives an account of the coinage of the Queen of the ...
Beruni - Page 114
Ghazni, as Beruni calls his enemy " Anangpal the Shahi," and the Raja Tarangini styles Trilochanp&l " the last of the Shahi kings. ...
Kangra - Page 189
From this family the rajas of Kashmir took •wives on the same terms as they received them from the rajas of Kangra. ...
Florence - Page 288
mostly made at Florence ; of the same period there exist some cast portrait medallions by various German artists.4 In the present century, ...
Leicester - Page 224
In AD 918 she obtained possession of Leicester by treaty, and the men of York covenanted to surrender to her. But in that same year, ...
Mayence - Page 334
his father Wilhelm's trade, he soon found means to educate himself in drawing, engraving, &c., and worked as medallist, first in Mayence, and, ...
Bannu - Page 108
Opokien is rendered by Julien as Avakan.9 Of course he must have passed through the district of the Kharoti Afghans on his way from Bannu to Ghazni. ...
Windsor - Page 309
Visit of Louis-Philippe to Windsor, 1844. Oh-.— LOUIS PHILIPPE I EOI DES FRAN^AIS. Head of King crowned with oak and olive leaves to right. ...
Ambala - Page 95
historians.i Ohargkara, the " rumbler or gurgler," is the Sanskrit name of the Gagar or Kagar River, near Ambala, and of the Ghagra River of Oudh. ...
Shahpur - Page 175
The term Bogor I take to be intended for Bagpur or Bagaputra, the Devaputra of India.i4 The coins of Shahpur are unfortunately limited to copper, ...
Wiesbaden - Page 334
he soon found means to educate himself in drawing, engraving, &c., and worked as medallist, first in Mayence, and, after 1808, in Wiesbaden. ...
Offa - Page 224
It relates to lands at Fernbeorngen 5 — apparently Farnborough, in Berks — which had formerly been grunted by Offa. ...
Panjab - Page 186
-All of these were no doubt the successors of Kidara in the northwest Panjab (see Figs. 10 to 15, Plate VI.). Towards the end of the fifth century the ...
Warwick - Page 223
The next year we find her building Eddisbury, in Cheshire, and then Warwick. In 915 we hear of her building Cyric-byrig, now Chir- bury, in Shropshire ...
Madrid - Page 297
The British Army enters Madrid, 1812. No. 21 of Mudie's Series, reverse. 24. Battle of Toulouse, 1814. No. 26 of Mudie's Series, reverse. 25. ...
Chichester - Page 261
Cissa, from Chichester, or Cissbiory ; Wlencing, from Lancing ; and Cymen, from Cymenesore, in Selsey, now Keyuor. ...
Shah 'Alam - Page 339
We find here a gold mohur of Shah 'Alam, struck at Shahjahanabad, attributed to Shahpura, without any reason whatever, except, no doubt, the fact that ...
Waterloo - Page 327
The Brunswick War Medal for Waterloo and Quatrebras, 1815. Obv.— " Friedrich Wilhelm Herzog." Bust of the Duke of Brunswick to left. Signed " G. ...
more pages: 334
Akyab - Page 123
and no doubt (says an Indian paper) when that gentleman receives a reinforcement of the Karen levy, now on the way to Akyab, he will oblige them. ...
Newport, Rhode Island - Page 61
Storer, of Newport, Rhode Island, has very kindly sent me what seems to be a complete list of all the known medals of Paracelsus, together with ...