. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. II.—Tetr.\i)r,\chm of Lvsimachi's of Thrace, as reprosciiuxl by Rouille, and actual coin (photo from Rouille and author's photo). In 1511 Margareta Pcutingcr, wife of the German humanist Gonrad Peutinger, sent to her brother C:hristoph W'elser, for publication, a numismatic paper on the titles of Roman emperors. For the same peri(;d Ernest Babelon '''' reports the name of Wolfgang Lazius (1514-1563), a \'icnnese doctor who, in his Commentatiorum vetustalorum numismatum (1558), first conceived the idea of a "corpus nummorum," c


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. II.—Tetr.\i)r,\chm of Lvsimachi's of Thrace, as reprosciiuxl by Rouille, and actual coin (photo from Rouille and author's photo). In 1511 Margareta Pcutingcr, wife of the German humanist Gonrad Peutinger, sent to her brother C:hristoph W'elser, for publication, a numismatic paper on the titles of Roman emperors. For the same peri(;d Ernest Babelon '''' reports the name of Wolfgang Lazius (1514-1563), a \'icnnese doctor who, in his Commentatiorum vetustalorum numismatum (1558), first conceived the idea of a "corpus nummorum," compendium of all the coins of antiquity—a gigantic project which has seemed too ambitious even for mod- ern 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 Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.


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