. International studio. EX-PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT GENERAL HORACE 1oRIEK MEDALS in I. sllc ER-MMSON Theodore Spicer-Simson, Medallist though still serving as a medium of are justified in assigning the origin of themedal to the Greeks, for they were not only thepioneers in perpetuating records of great eventsor personages in this manner, but they were thepeople who laid and established the canons andideals of that art whose most beautiful examplesto-day are the incomparably glorious coins ofthe Greek, cities of Sicily and Magna the famous silver medallions of Syra
. International studio. EX-PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT GENERAL HORACE 1oRIEK MEDALS in I. sllc ER-MMSON Theodore Spicer-Simson, Medallist though still serving as a medium of are justified in assigning the origin of themedal to the Greeks, for they were not only thepioneers in perpetuating records of great eventsor personages in this manner, but they were thepeople who laid and established the canons andideals of that art whose most beautiful examplesto-day are the incomparably glorious coins ofthe Greek, cities of Sicily and Magna the famous silver medallions of Syra-cuse are undoubtedly coins, still, in other respects,they possess all the characteristics of the medal. The Romans carried the commemorativeissues of the Greeks a step nearer to our concep-tion of the true medal. From Augustus toTheodoric and Justinian, the Roman rulers madea practise of striking gold and silver pieces ofmedallic form and commemorative of notableevents in their reigns. As these pieces were allmultiples
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