.'Reprefentattons of Coins or Medals, 441 
what are taken from them afterwards not 
quite fo elegant. But each Mould will ufual- 
ly afford three or four good Impreffions, ei¬ 
ther coloured or plain; and if the Ink be 
got off clean, the fame Wax may be melted 
and employed feveral Times. 
It is evident, that Impreffions taken thus, 
mull be exadtly what the Medals are from 
whence we take them, and that any Perfon 
who can procure the Wax Impreffions of 
Medals, may, by a little Pains, be furnifh- 
ed with a noble Collection of the genuine 
Prints of Medals; which may be placed in 
Books, in orderly Series, and moved from 
one Leaf to another at Pleafure; if a little 
Margin be left about them, and only the 
Edges be pafted down. I flatter myfelf 
therefore, that the Ufefulnefs of this Con¬ 
trivance will not be flighted, on account of 
its being fo plain and obvious, that every 
Gentleman will wonder he did not hit on it 
himfelf; fince Difcoveries that are moft eafy, 
and confequently may be pracbfed by every 
body, however limple and void of Inven¬ 
tion they may appear, are really in them- 
felves mod: valuable. I need only inftance 
the Art of Printing, (from which this in 
fome Sort is borrowed) the moft happy 
Difcovery that perhaps was ,ever made by 
Man; yet feemingly fo eafy, and what the 
Ancients came fo near to in their Seals, that 
it 
