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MEDALS. 
2E>G1NA, coins of, extremely ancient, 
XJU 806. 
African coins, 819. 
Alphonfo king of Arragon, a colleftor of 
medals, 801, 
America, anciently had no coins, 816. 
Angelus Politianus, his ufe of medals, Soi. 
Arabia, coins of, 819. 
Architedlure of the ancients to be ftudied 
from their medals, 800. 
As, a Roman weight and coin, 810, 11 ; 
imperial as, 813. 
Athens, coins of, 807. 
Aurelian, his innovations on the coinage, 
815, 16. 
Aureus, a Roman gold coin, 815 ; its di- 
vifions, 816. 
Barryls remarks on early coins, 804, 5 J 
hints for modern coins, 82a. 
Black money, why fo called, 821. 
Bohemia and Poland, coins of, 820. 
Brafs coins, 803 ; brafs double the value 
of copper, ibid. Corinthian brafs not ufed 
in coining, 803,45 of Greece, 807 5 of 
Rome, 812. 
Britiih ancient money, 804,818; modern, 
820-825 ; value of, 827. 
Britiih Mufeum, colledtion of medals 
there, 802. 
Byzantine coins, 833. 
Cavino the Paduan, a famous forger of 
medals, 828. 
Chaleos of brafs, how divided, 807. 
Charles I. his coronation.medal, 824. 
China, ancient coins of, 817; modern, 816. 
Coinage, invention and progrefs of, 804; 
whence derived to the Romans, 810, 11; 
officers of the mint, and mode of coin¬ 
ing, 816. 
Contorniati, a peculiar kind of medal, 
826 ; of lead, 831. 
Colledtions of medals, 800; Britiih, 8or, 
2 5 French, German, Pruffian, &c. 802. 
Combe, Dr. his aefeription of the Hunte¬ 
rian mufuem, 801, 2 ; his remarks on 
the medals of Camarina and the Maries, 
809. 
Copper coins of Greece, 807; of Rome, 
8105 of England, 821; of Scotland, 823. 
Crofs, a very ancient religious fymbol, 
810; an indecent emblem among the 
heathens, 825. 
Cunobelinus, a Britifh king, 818. 
Cyrene, beautiful coins of, 804. 
Cyftophori, a peculiar fort of Greek coin, 
806, 7. 
Cyzicus, a coin of, 810. 
David IJ. king of Scotland, 823. 
Denarii, Roman, 812; filver, 813; cop¬ 
per, 814; confular, 815. 
Denmark, coins of, 820 ; medals, 824. 
Drachm, didrachm, &c. 806. 
Dupondius, or half-feftertius, 813. 
Egyptian coins of filver and brafs, 804. 
Eledfrum, a mixture of gold and filver, 803, 
Elizabeth, coins of, 821. 
England, coins of, filver, 820, gold and 
copper, 821 ; medals, 824, 5. 
Eveivi,’s Diieourfes on Medals, 801, 802. 
Farthings of queen Anne, 821, 2. 
Florence, fine coins of, 819. 
Florins in England, 821. 
Follis, or purfe, the name of a Roman 
coin, 2i2 ; its divifions, 813. 
Forgers of medals, 827. 
French ancient coins, 818; modern, 819; 
medals, 824. 
Friclich, an eminent writer on medals, 
798, 802, 3, 4. 
Geography elucidated by medals, 799. 
Gold coins, 803 ; of Greece, 807 ; of Sy- 
racufe, &c. 808 ; of Rome, 815; of 
England, 821 5 of Scotland, 823. 
Gold germinating in the Items of the vine 
and of corn, 803 ; comparative value of 
gold and filver, 808. 
Greece, had no coins in Homer’s time, 
805 ; the mina and talent, 805, 6 ; 
filver coins, 806 ; copper and brafs, 807 ; 
gold, 807, 8 ; value of Greek coins, 
826 ; forged, 828 ; arrangement of, 
831; the reverfes, fymbols explained, 
^ 3 2 > 3 - 
Groat, or great coin, 819. 
Grollier’s colledtion of medals, 801. 
Greek coins do not in general bear dates, 
798 ; their early elegance, 804. 
Hardouin’s Herodiades, or hiltory of Jew¬ 
ish medals, 798. 
Hebrew coins, not genuine, 818. 
Heptarchy, not ended by Egbert, 820; 
coins of, 820, 831. 
Heraclei, a filver coin of, 806. 
Hercules, the old and the young, 806, 833. 
Hiltory illullrated by medals, 798. 
Holland, medals of, 824. 
Hunter’s curious colledtion of medals, 
801, 2. 
Japan, modern coins of, 818. 
India coins of, 819, 19. 
Infcriptions and legends, 834, 5. 
Jobert, or Joubert, a writer on medals, 
802, 804. 
Ireland, coins of, 823. 
Italy, ancient and modern coins of, 819; 
medals, 824. 
Legend of a coin or medal, 834. 
Lepton, a fmall Greek coin, 807, 813. 
Lydians, the fuppofed inventors of coinage, 
8045 their coins, 818. 
Macedonian medals and coins, 800, 803, 
807, 8. 
Mardes, or Maries, coins of, 808 : their 
emblems explained, 809, 10. 
Mary queen of Scots, medals of, 823, 4. 
Medallions, and medalets, 825. 
Medals were the coins of the ancients, 798. 
804; their importance in illuftrating 
hiltory, and in afeertaining dates, 798 j 
in geography and mythology, 799 ; pre- 
fent us with likeneffes of the perfons 
and of the buildings of the ancients, 
799, 832 ; ornaments and badges of" dif- 
tindtion, 800, 832 j the ltudy of them 
not of very ancient date, 800; collec¬ 
tions of medals, 801, 2, 31 ; writers on 
medals, 802, 3 ; materials of coins ana 
medals, 803, 4. Greek coins and me¬ 
dals, 8055 Perfian, Sec. 808; Roman, 
810; how preferved, 8x6; of various 
nations, 817, 18 ; modern coins, 818, 
19; modem medals, 823; compared 
with ancient, 825; Scottilh, 823, 4; 
Italian, French, Englilh, &c. 824 ; fati- 
rical, 825 ; value of, 820, 850 ; condi¬ 
tion, or prefervadon, 827 ; counterfeit¬ 
ing, 828 ; fcarcity, 830; arrangement 
of in .a cabinet, 831. 
Millrarenfis, or thoufander, a Reman coin, 
814. 
Mina of Greece, a pound weight, or 100 
drachms, 805. 
Miffilia, coins or medals thrown among 
the multitude, 813. 
Money real and ideal, 804; originally re« 
gulated by weight, 805, 810. 
Norris’s Treatife on the Syro-Macedonian 
Princes, 798. 
Norway, coins of, 820. 
Oboius, of filver, 806; of brafs, 807. 
Pafteboard money, 804. 
Penny, the original and general coin, 820. 
Perfian daric, 804; other Perfian coins, 
800,818; modern, 819. 
Pefcennius Niger, coins of, 817. 
Philip of Macedon, 803 ; firft coined gold 
in Greece, 807, 8. 
Philippi, gold coins fo called, 808. 
Philiftis, not known where Ihe reigned, 
807. 
Phoenician coins, 817, 818. 
Pinkerton, the moll: comprehenfive and 
ufeful writer on medals, 798, 802, 3. 
Plated coins or medals, 828- 
Plutarch, one of the firft ftudiers of medals 
among the moderns, 801. 
Prince’s metal, a conipofition known to 
the ancients, 804. 
Pruffian cabinet of medals, 802; coins of 
820. 
guinarius, a Roman filver coin, 814. 
Reverfes of medals and coins, inftrudiion 
to be derived from them, 832. 
Roman medals particularly ufeful in re- 
fpedl to their dates, 798 ; copper the 
firft coinage, 8105 whence the Romans 
derived their coinage, 810, n; brafs, 
812; filver, 813; gold, 815; lead, 
830 ; method of coinage, 816 ; value 
of coins, 826; forgeries, 827 ; blun¬ 
dered, 8315 leverfes, 832; fymbols, 
834. 
Ruffia, money of, 820. 
Saturnalia, coins ftruck during thofe fefti- 
vities, 813. 
Scotland, filver coins of, 822 ; gold and 
copper, 823 ; medals, 823, 4. 
Scruple, a Roman gold coin, 815. 
Servius Tullius, his coins, 811. 
Seftertius explained, 8io, 812. 
Sicily, very early coins of, 808 ; modern, 
819. 
Sidon, medals of, 810. 
Silver coins, 803; of Greece, 806 ; of 
Rome, 813 ; of England, 820 ; of Scot¬ 
land, 822. 
Solidus, a Roman gold coin, 815; other 
names of it, 816. 
Spanilh ancient coins, 818 ; modern, 819 ; 
medals, 824. 
Stukeicy’s Medallic Hillory cf Caraufius, 
801. 
Sweden, coins of, 820 ; medals, 824. 
Talents, ancient, different kinds, 805. 
Tetricus, gold medallion of, 817. 
Vaillant’s Hill, of the Kings of Syria, 798. 
Venice, coins of, 819. 
Vico, .fEneas, a writer on medals, S02, 
803. 
Walker, Obadiah, a writer on medals, 
802. 
Wood’s Irilk halfpence, 823. 
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