Gold medals of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II by Johann Nepomuk Wirt, Pope Pius VI, and King Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina Naples and Sicily by Martin Krafft, given to Thomas Martyn. Aurea Numismata. Copperplate engraving from Thomas Martyn’s The English Entomologist, Exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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