NUM 
under the dire&tion of the Chiflets; and the moft valuable 
colle&ion formed by the archduke Ferdinand at Ombras in 
. It was afterwards confiderably added to by the 
monarchs Maximilian I. an 
of the ‘Grane colleétion. | years ago, th 
ber of coins and medals of this colleGtion amounted i 
upwards of 40,000, of which about 22,000 were antique. 
q 
We poflefs a mafterly Tekkeh, of the Vienna colleétion by 
faurus Brandenburgicus een Co 6, 
1699, and 1701.”" ‘Though king eee William I. took 
“ out a number of large gold coins, (among which was the 
y large one, eight s, or five hundred ducats in 
weight, bearing ri portraits "of Ae redens ele the Great, 
were co gar in o {mall current 
laffic aca which have 
ron’s antiquarian refearches 
ext in importance among the nu umifmatological col- 
le€tions - uel is that of Gotha, the bafis of which 
was form neft the It was materially in- 
aa aie in {mall cabinets, each of which is 
ed below with a fhelf for books 
apoE. This celebrated collection has 
ifferent times confiderably increafed by others, 
fach as + thofe of Schachman and Sultzer, that of Mr. Ger- 
ning, rich in fcarce Greek coins, that of baron Seckendorf, 
&e. he coins in the Gotha colleCtion are fll arranged 
after the old w , by the fizes and metals, and the fame 
mode is anaes in the catalogue, feven volumes of which 
comprize the eng coins as follows: gold coins, kings; 
coins of cities and free ftates ; j coins of families ; imperial 
filver ; coins of firft fize; coins of fecond and third fize. 
ere are bad catalogues of the collections of Schach- 
Sultzer, which are ke A fyfte- 
J 
A or 
has been publifhed Schlichtegroll in 37 09 
NUMITOR, in Biogra phys the fon of Procas, king of 
Am 
Alba, and the brother o ulius. Procas, before his 
death, made him and Amulius joint heirs to die eee on 
condition of their reigning annually by turns; but Amulius, 
on getting poffeffion of the throne, excluded Numitor, 
3 
NUN 
b h » who at 
length killed Amu lus, and reftored N er : i: throne, 
This circumttance occurred in the year 754 B.C. 
NUMMES, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 
province of Nyland; 20 miles N. of Helfingborg. 
NUMMULARIA, in Botany. Sec ANAGALLIs and 
Lystmacuia. 
UMMULARIUS, among the Romans, was ufed to 
fignify a banker, or perfon who deals in money. 
It likewife denoted an affayer, or one who eftimated the 
goodnefs and value of money, as to its weight and finenefs 
of metal 
NUMMUS, or Numus, among the Romans, a parti- 
sre piece of money, otherwife waited “he eflertius, or feflerce s 
fee. 
This was fometimes called nummus feftertius. Decem milla 
numitm, &9 decem millia fefertium, were Roman fums, which 
amounted to the fam 
NUN, ~ ‘ie feminine of Nennus or Domnus, quafi 
; word anciently ufed for a female religious, and 
ae nes have ftill the ie ue > 
names. The rule o , jew up in the 6t 
century, ordains, ‘ Juniores foo oo Nonnos vocent, 
quod intelligitur paterna revere 
The word comes from non a, Or nonnanis, all 
Latin terms, firft ufed for conic, ‘Gen for religions. 
Borel derives it from zonno 7 a which, in Italia 
fignifies grandfather or grandmother 3 i 
applied by way = honour to the silos as that of father to - 
the man, religiou 
un, or nonnes, fed to ee a monk, are of Hebrew 
ae tea from nin, or nun, a 
ence alfo nunnery, a monatte fa a ota religious. 
Nun, in Geogr fee a river of ioe ooce runs into 
the Atlantic, N. lat. 4° 
un, or Vled de Nun. 
Non, in Ornithology, the com n Englith name for the 
parus ceruleus, or blue titm a "aiftin uifhed from the 
common titmoule by its {mallnefs, and by its having its blue 
head furrounded by a white line. 
See siege us Albellus. 
e of a peculiar {pecies of pigeon, 
a {mall 
Se Vino a he 
he being as it were ie ered wit 
e body of this fpecies is all ee 3 the head, tail, 
and fix of the flight-feathers black, red, or yellow; the 
eyes are pear-coloured, and the hood this is a rae 
tuft of feathers on the hinder part of the hee, and the more 
s efteemed, This 
times from their true colour; thefe 
feathered ; but it is a mere accidental variety, the young of 
fuch being often as perfe&t and beautiful as of any others. 
NUNCAR, in pes i: a om of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Mahur ; es S.S.E. of Mahur 
NUNCIATION, Nonctazi0, among the ges he ; 
my 
