. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 10.—River-god Gel.\s on a coin from Sicily, interpreted as the bv Rouille, and actual coin (plioio IVom Roiiillc, left, and author's phoio). Lyon in 1553 b\- Gtiillaunir Ronille, tlieic appear, in addition to the drawings of real coin images, imagi- nary portraits of Adam, Noah, Osiris, Auamemnon (fia;. 9). Not onl\- was such fiction mixed with I hut also the real coins themscKcs oltcn were intcr- 'ER 32: NUNUSM.'—.\N ,.\N(::IFNT SCIFNCE pretcd lo fit till- purpoM's of the .imlior. For , the ri\er-i;od Gel
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 10.—River-god Gel.\s on a coin from Sicily, interpreted as the bv Rouille, and actual coin (plioio IVom Roiiillc, left, and author's phoio). Lyon in 1553 b\- Gtiillaunir Ronille, tlieic appear, in addition to the drawings of real coin images, imagi- nary portraits of Adam, Noah, Osiris, Auamemnon (fia;. 9). Not onl\- was such fiction mixed with I hut also the real coins themscKcs oltcn were intcr- 'ER 32: NUNUSM.'—.\N ,.\N(::IFNT SCIFNCE pretcd lo fit till- purpoM's of the .imlior. For , the ri\er-i;od Gelas, a man-headed hull, whicli appears on an ancient coin iium the Greek city ot (iela in Si( il\', is identified as tin- Gomparison with the coin rcxcals liow ihe drawini; was clianucd 11\- adtfilion of the invented legend Mixii- ^ws (fi'4. 1(1).'" In another in^, fur a coin ol iIk; 'Ihracian kini; I.\ wIki used the licul ol . ihi- (ire,it on the uh\ ervc, Rouille the kinc;'s name from its original (ireek on the reverse ,ind il, in a spellin;;, .Mexander's head on the hice ol' (he coin (111;. 1 1 ;'' The ii,ii\e of stu h iinljlicitions aroused oiiK a limiled interest; more mature treatises, which duiim; the ciiK|ue( into, .1 wider '1 he .Xnuelo Poli/.ianu (; 14')4) puhlished his Miuillii>h<»iii)i cnlfiiiai- jiinnm in 14,S'i in Florence, in this he discussed, amoiii; other lliinus, .incienl coin images such .!•- the daeuers on lirulus' coin, . 17. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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