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A Medal to be valuable lliould be 

 fcarce ; fhould point out fome extraordi- 

 nary Event ; or have a great Singularity 

 in the Reverfe but above all, it muft be 

 an Original, which very often is not the 

 Cafe with fome that are in high Eftima- 

 tion. Medals and Coins are of two Kinds, 

 ancient and modern : The ancient Medals 

 are again fubdivided, into thofe of the 

 higher and thofe of the lower Antiquity : 

 The ancient of the higher Antiquity com- 

 prehend all thofe that were ilruck before 

 the Beginning of the fourth Century ; 

 thofe of the lower Antiquity are what 

 were ftruck from that Period of Time to 

 the Beginning of the tenth Century. All 

 that have been ftruck fince are efteemed 

 modern. 



Evei7 Colle6lor of Medals is ambitious 

 to get thofe that are moft valuable, fcarce, 

 and rareft to be met with confequently 

 the Punic^ Hebrew^ Gothic^ and Arabic^ are 

 univerfally fought, very few of them being 

 preferved. 



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