 | 1879 - 1174 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous...was ever intended to serve as a coin, against which its size must have been a great objection. Moreover it would appear that very few specimens were struck.... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1880 - 990 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous...was ever intended to serve as a coin, against which its size must have been a great objection. Moreover it would appear that very few specimens were struck.... | |
 | 1880 - 820 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous...was ever intended to serve as a coin, against which its size must have been a great objection. Moreover it would appear that very few specimens were struck.... | |
 | 1882 - 780 pages
...a long time admit on their coins any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous gold -piece struck by Encratiilos, King of IJnctrianu, of which the French possess the only known example. The fact that... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 382 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous...was ever intended to serve as a coin, against which its size must have been a great objection. Moreover it would appear that very few specimens were struck.... | |
 | 1879 - 1160 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous...was ever intended to serve as a coin, against which its size must have been a great objection. Moreover it would appear that very few specimens were struck.... | |
 | 1879 - 1196 pages
...they did not for a long time admit any allusions to contemporary events, and then only in an indirect manner. Almost the only exception is the enormous gold piece struck by Eucratides, king of Baetriana, of which the French possess the only known example. The fact that it is just equal to twenty... | |
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... Coins are, of course, very instructive from an historical point of view. Nevertheless it is somewhat remarkable that the Greeks do not seem to have ever struck commemorative medals. Even on their coins they did not for a long time admit any allusions... 