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ceiving illustration from the facts of contempo- rary history, than by imparting it.
And this leads me to consider the devices that appear upon this class of coins ; and in so doing, I shall be concerned with silver pieces only, as the brasses adhered to their ancient insignia, and the gold coins are too few or too doubtful to be noticed.
It has already been observed, that a biga was so common an emblem on the denarius, and a figure of Victory on the quinarius, as to give cor- responding appell...ations to them ; and yet, in this latter instance, there have been writers who have endeavoured to find some historical meaning for the emblem, and to assign every quinarius that they meet with, to some real victory. But be- sides these customary emblems, the obverse pre- sents heads of deities, of genii, and of ancient worthies, in all possible variety, connected, no doubt, by real or by fanciful relation, with the fa- mily of the public officer, for whose service they were minted. Without an accompanying inscrip- tion it is not always easy to identify the em- blem; but with such assistance we can clearly make out the resemblances of Honor, Triumpus, Moneta, Leibertas, Pietas, Fides, Concordia, and other unreal personages, and we have as certainly the countenances of Quirinus, Numa, Ancus, and the earlier Brutus, as they presented themselves Digitized by LiOOQ IC LECTURE VI.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
ceiving illustration from the facts of contempo- rary history, than by imparting it.
And this leads me to consider the devices that appear upon this class of coins ; and in so doing, I shall be concerned with silver pieces only, as the brasses adhered to their ancient insignia, and the gold coins are too few or too doubtful to be noticed.
It has already been observed, that a biga was so common an emblem on the denarius, and a figure of Victory on the quinarius, as to give cor- responding appell...ations to them ; and yet, in this latter instance, there have been writers who have endeavoured to find some historical meaning for the emblem, and to assign every quinarius that they meet with, to some real victory. But be- sides these customary emblems, the obverse pre- sents heads of deities, of genii, and of ancient worthies, in all possible variety, connected, no doubt, by real or by fanciful relation, with the fa- mily of the public officer, for whose service they were minted. Without an accompanying inscrip- tion it is not always easy to identify the em- blem; but with such assistance we can clearly make out the resemblances of Honor, Triumpus, Moneta, Leibertas, Pietas, Fides, Concordia, and other unreal personages, and we have as certainly the countenances of Quirinus, Numa, Ancus, and the earlier Brutus, as they presented themselves Digitized by LiOOQ IC LECTURE VI.
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