[ 453 3 
Mr. Vaillant , the mod knowing and experienced 
antiquary of the laft age, in treating of the medals 
of this emperor fais exprefsly, ex auro non obfervan- 
tur (i) ,• and Mr. de In Bafie has alfo remarked in 
his Catalogue of the Roman emperors , that notwirh- 
ftanding what is faid by Anthony le Pois, no medal 
of Pefcennius Niger in gold is to be found in any 
known cabinet (2). 
Sigifrnond Liebe, who in the year 1730 publifhed 
the cabinet of the Duke of Saxe Gotha , under the 
title of Gotha Numaria , in order to prove it fupe- 
rior to that of the Duke of Parma publifhed by 
Father Pedrufi (3), and equal at leaft to that of the 
antient Dukes or Arfchot (4) ; has ranged the gold 
imperial medals of thofe three cabinets in three op- 
pofite columns : and when he comes to Pefcennius 
Niger , he firfl: remarks, that there is no gold medal 
of him in the cabinet of Parma ; and then fais, that 
the ingraved one in the Arfchot collection is gene- 
rally acknowledged to be counterfeit and ca ft. He 
likewife declares his agreement with all other anti- 
quaries, that there is no true one in gold ; but, in 
order to render the comparifon more complete, he 
has ventured to place a falfe one of Saxe Gotha 
againft that of Arfchot , becaufe it was one of the 
firft in the collection, and not difapproved of by 
Mr. Morel (5). 
But 
(1) Nu'nijwat. Imp. Horn, praeflantior. 
(2) La fcience des Medailles , Tom. n. p. 398. ed. 1 739. 
(3) See Randur. Bibl. Nuviar. p.cvn. 
(4) Ibid. p. xxxvil. 
(5) Goth. Num. cap. ill. §2. p. 49. 
M m m 2 
