244 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



of obtaining a knowledge of thcfe matters, by 

 confounding the Icienccs ? Ought we not much 

 rather to endeavour carefully to mark their diftinct 

 limits ? But perhaps their intention is to com- 

 prehend, under the denomination of literature, 

 the whole of Univerfal Erudition; and if that be 

 the cafe, we are not defirous of diiputing with 

 any one about words. 



CHAP. XI. 



Of MEDALS and COINS. 



I. T 7t 7 E fliall begin with coins, becaufe they 

 ' V are mod ancient, and of moft univer- 

 fal ufe , money was current a long time before 

 they had invented the method of preferving the 

 memory of illudrious peribns, by thofe little 

 monuments of metal, which imitate coins, and 

 are eafily difperfed among mankind, and which 

 are called Medals. The number that has 

 been made of thcfe medals is, befide, vaftly in- 

 ferior to that of monies ; and the coins of the 

 ancients are, moreover, become our medals. 



The 



