Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Handbook of English Coins: Giving a Concise Description of the Various Denominations of Coin; From the Norman Conquest, to the Present Reign
The science of Numismatics is one which opens, to the inquiring mind, a field of study, which yields to none of its sister sciences in interest or instruction. In a cabinet of English coins we have a mihiature history of our own country, in which we trace the gradual development of that perfection in the different branches of art which now characterizes our nation. We trace the progress of the fine arts in design and sculp.
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