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hr's Treatife upon the ftme Subjecl ; but finding fome 
Particularities that admitted of a further Improvement, 
he went on again with his Defign; and, after a (hort In- 
trodu(£Hon, bewailing the Failure of Marbles, Statues, 
Trophies, &c. in perpetuating memorable Adions, he 
begins his Firft Chapter with the Vfe of Medals^ either 
made for Money, or to preferve the Memory of Worthy 
Actions, obfervingits very early ufe in the World, and 
that the Firft Roman Money was Brafs, without any 
Mark at all ; then (hews the Original of Scamping^which 
was for a Teftimonial of its being of fuch a Weight.The 
Firft Silver ftamped at Rome was a little before the Firft 
Punk War, and Gold not till about Sixty Two Years af- 
ter, at which time the Worth of Gold to Silver was as 
rx^ to One, though in the earlieft times it bore but a 
decuple Value, an"iong the Romans and Greeks, Next, 
coming to fpeak more particularly of MeJalsy he is of 
Opinion, That they did not, when firft made, pafs for 
Money, but were ftampt in Memory of particular fa- 
mous Aftions or Perfbns. But upon the Inundation of 
the Gotbs^ the Luftre of Medals ended, with all the mere 
Polite Arts. Next he treats of the Materials ufed for 
Money, whether Leather, Paper, Earth, Porcelane,Co- 
ral, Shells, Linnen, or the like. He in the next Place 
fpeaks of the time when the feveral Metals came firft in 
nft, and is inclined to think Iron and Copper were the 
Firft, of which he gives feveral Inftances. Then he 
proceeds to confidcr the ImprefSonsand Sizes, of which 
latter there were Three. 
The Second Chapter treats of the Medals feveral 
Nations, as Hehraic^ Pumc^ Barhrous ; thoft of the 
Goths^ Huns, Lomhards, &c. with the Britijb Coins, 
where he fays, he has feen a Scries of all our Coins from 
Edward the Confefor, lo our prefent Times, except Ri- 
chard 
