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Angelo adorned with statues ; No. 313 (Clement X., 1670-1076), commem- 

 orates (lie victory of John Sobieski, King of Poland, over the Turks, and 

 exhibits him offering to the Pope the flags captured from the conquered 

 enemy ; No. 3'!8 (Innocent XI., 1(576-1039), the condemnation of Molinos ; 

 No. 342 refers to the alliance against the Turks formed by Innocent XL, 

 the Emperor Leopold, John III., King of Poland, and the Doge of Venice 

 in 1084 ; No. 335 (Alexander VIIL, 1689-1691), the capture of the Morea 

 by the Venetians from the Turks (we may note that the Parthenon was 

 destroyed by Venetian bombshells in this encounter af.er surviving the 

 hand of time for centuries after centuries); No. 381 (Clement XL, 1700- 

 1721), represents the mission of Cardinal de Tournon to China ; No. 390, 

 the machine by which the obelisk of the Plaza del Monte Cettorio at Rome 

 was elevated ; No. 440 the arch of Constantino at Rome ; No. 493 (Clement 

 Xim, the city and fortress of Clvita Vecchia ; No. 539 (Pius VII., 1800- 

 1823), the bringing back of the Laocoon from Paris to Rome ; No. 561, 

 angel delivering St. Peter from prison ; No. 572, the introduction of vac- 

 cination into the States of the Church; No. 577 (Leo XII., 1823-1829), 

 Saint Peter announcing the opening of the Jubilee ; No. 679 (Pius IX.), 

 Rome triumphant wrapped in the Pontifical flag ; No. 680, medal for those 

 who exhibited their fidelity to the Pope ; No. 688, medal for the Pontifical 

 volunteers; No. 700 and No. 702 relate to the visitation of the cholera in 

 1854; No. 700, the opening of the railway from Rome to Frascati ; No. 

 728, Daniel in the lion's den, refers to the Piedmontese invasion of 1861 ; 

 No. 744 and 745 commemorate the eighteen hundredth anniversary of the 

 martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul ; No. 754, the Roman exposition 

 of 1870 ; also, eight special medals of Pius IX., commemoratingthe oecu- 

 menical council, and the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh years of the 

 papacy ; in all seven hundred and sixty-four medals. 



This magnificent series is replete with interest historical, architectural, 

 artistic and numismatic. Many of the public works and buildings of Rome 

 are figured both in their former and present conditions; churches, basilicas, 

 facades, palaces, aqueducts, armorial bearings, sepulchres, canonizations, 

 victories, are all represented in this (very rarely) complete collection. The 

 workmanship is of the highest order of merit, and the medals are in the 

 finest possible condition. The example of Mr. Hockley is one worthy of 

 imitation by our public spirited citizens, who in so many instances require 

 but the knowledge of a need to be brought to their notice. 



According to Ilenin, there are six grand chronological epochs of coinage, 

 all of which may witli great certainty be known from the indications 

 afforded us by the metals, the legends, the form of letters, methods of fab- 

 rication and style of art. 



First. From the first invention of coinage to the time of Alexander the 

 First, King of Macedonia, i. e. from about the seventh century B C. to 

 the year 451 B. C. This was the rudest epoch of the art ; the metal was 

 mainly silver, some little gold, and no copper. The form of the coins was 

 globular and irregular, bearing on the reverse the rude punch mark (oreux 



