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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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able reading, I think, is that I formerly mentioned, 
and to which reference is made in a foot note, 
Fortitudo Ejus Rempublicam Tenet —a graceful 
compliment to the sovereign for the time being, 
and well merited by many of Victor Emanuel’s 
heroie ancestors, but by none more than himself. 
Mr. Caapwicx and Mr. Hacxwoop both give the 
motto F. E.R. T.: my only knowledge of it is from 
coins, and I find it invariably reads F E R T, with 
no mark of abbreviation after the letters, which 
seems to render it probable that the true solution 
is yet to be sought. 
‘As an account of the legends on the edges of 
coins is a desideratum, and likely to prove in- 
teresting to many besides myself, I send youa 
contribution from pieces, all of the dollar size, in 
my own cabinet, and hope that some better Nu- 
mismatist, enjoying greater advantages, will take 
up the subject and complete the list. 
England has, Nisi Periturus Mihi Adimat Nemo, Crom- 
well, 
Decus Et Tutamen. Charles II. 
This motto was suggested by Evelyn, and still 
retains its place on the larger denominations of 
our gold and silver coins. The Commonwealth 
half-erowns inscribed on the edge Truth And 
Peace, 1651, Petrus Blondeus Inventor Fecit 
were never current, nor was Simon’s half-crown 
of Charles II., having on the rim Reversus Sine 
Clade Victor; they were merely pattern pieces. 
France, La Nation, La Loi, Et Le Roi. Louis XVI. 
1792. 
Garantie Nationale. 
Liberté, Egalité. 
Dieu Protege La France. 
pire. 
Domine Salvum Fac Regem. Louis XVIIE. 
Belgium. Dieu Protege La Belgique. 
Holland. God Zy Met Ons. 
Oldenburg. Yin Gott, Ein Recht, Eine Wahrheit. 
Hanover. Nec Aspera Terrent. 
Brunswick. Convention Vom 30 July, 1838, 
Sweden. Ne Leedar Avaris Manibus. 
Prussia, Gott Mit Uns. 
Saxony. Gott Segne Sachsen. 
Hesse-Darmstadt. Gott Mit Uns, 
The Empire. Justitia Et Clementia. 
Austria. Recta Tueri. 
Lomb. Ven. Kingdom, Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum. 
Sardinia, Fert, Fert, Fert. 
Cisalpine Republic. Unione, E Virtu. 
Kingdom of Italy. Dio Protegge L’Italia. 
Venetian Rep., 1848. Dio Benedite L’Italia. 
Dio Premiera La Costaura. 
Tuscany. Ipsa Sui Custos Forma Decoris Erit. 
Naples. Custos Regni Deus. Jos. Napoleon, 
Dio Protegge Il Regno, Murat. 
Providentia Optimi Principis. Ferdinand Il. 
Spain. Ley, Patria, Rey. Isabella IT. 
Sud. Peruana, Dios Protege El Estado. 
I have omitted such as merely give the value of 
the coin, as Kronthaler Baierischer, or the pure- 
ness of the metal, as 75-100 Delar Fin Silfver, 
deeming them 6f no interest. 
La Republique. 
Ditto. 
Le Consulat et L’Em- 
Of the foregoing we may assign the palm to our 
|}own Decus Et Tutamen; Tuscany’s Ipsa Sui 
Custos Forma Decoris Erit probably ranks next ; 
and then the Ne Leedar Avaris Manibus of Swe- 
den. Of the Providentia Optimi Principis of the 
| Neapolitan Bourbons may we not safely say — 
“ The force of satire can no farther go.” 
I have met with no legends ou the edges of the 
coins of the New World, with the exception of 
those of South Peru, taking no notice of the fifty 
cent piece of the United States, which merely 
gives the value; but as far as my means of judg- 
ing extend, about one half of the larger denomina- 
tions of coins of the different states of the Old 
World present inscribed edges, the rest being 
simply grained, exhibiting, however, much variety 
of pattern. Joun J. A. Boase. 
Alyerton Vean, Penzance. 
JACOB BUHME OR BEHMEN. 
(1 S, viii. 246.; 2° S. i. 395.) 
To complete the lucid and correct notices in 
the “N. & Q.” concerning the above-named cele- 
brated individual, whom Francis Lee, in a poetical. 
preface to the chief publication of Jane Lead’s 
transcendental effusions, thus apostrophises : 
“ From thy dark cell now, great Borremius, rise! 
Tutor to sages, mad to the’ worldly wise. 
Wisdom’s first distant phosphor, to whose sight 
Internal nature’s ground, all naked, bright 
Unveils, —all worlds appear, heavens spread their light. 
Early thou risest, glorious, but in clouds 
Thick set; not sent to the vulgar, nor the learned 
crowds 
Of reason’s orb — too low; none thee descry, 
None but the well purg’d, mystic eagle eye 
Of some few anchorite elected mugi. 
Here all past sages veil and disappear! 
Een Malebranche bends beneath his weighty character, 
To thee resign’d; and ‘tis but just, for he 
Draws all from one small rivulet of thee*, 
Fountain of science, art, and mystery ! 
Where Stagyrite, Hermes, Plato, all combine, 
Descartes in every page, and Boyle in every line. 
And yet alone, by eminence, rue Divine!” 
I say, to complete these notices for all future in- 
quirers, I hand for insertion in “ N. & Q.” a cor- 
rect list of his wonderful writings, as follows : 
[@ The Emblem at the head of Béhme’s Works, is 
an Angel passing through the air, blowing a Trumpet, 
signifying the Demonstration of the Gospel Religion, by a 
revelation of universal and self-evident truth ; out of which 
is sounding forth these words, — To all Christians, Jews, 
Turks and Heathens, to All the Nations of the earth, This 
Trumpet sounds for the Last Time. | 
1. “ Aurora. The Dawning of the Eternal Day, or 
the Infancy of Creation. — An unfinished piece, of the 
childhood of his illumination. [Wherein he describes as 
* Of how many other originals also, may this be truly 
said, from Newton, if not Harvey, to Hahnemann ? 
