Crowns of the ancients: radial crowns 1,2, laurel wreaths 3,4, civic crown 5, Obsidionalis (for generals who delivered a town under siege) 6, crenellated Murali (for the first man to cross the wall of a besieged town) 7, Vallaris (for soldiers who stormed enemy camps) 8 and naval coronet (for victories at sea) 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.

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