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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3231873, member: 75937"]Reading numismatic references from the 18th and 19th centuries is romantic in its anachronism. I imagine myself in my bifocals -- newly invented by Benjamin Franklin -- examining coins by lantern light in my study, sipping on whisky, my brain filled with the latest music of Beethoven, which I had heard performed earlier in the day by the local chamber ensemble.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins with listings from antique references!</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, here's the listing in the catalog of Sulzer's collection, published in 1777, for this coin of Volusian:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]844130[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]844131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Or these listings in Mionnet's <i>Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines: Supplément 2</i>, published in 1822:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]844136[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]844137[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]844138[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]844139[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]844140[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Or this listing in Wiczay's <i>Musei Hederuarii: in Hungaria numos antiquos graecos et latinos descripsit</i>, published in 1814:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]844146[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]844141[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>And here's a magnificent string quartet by Beethoven, his 13th, composed in 1825, in B flat major, opus 130:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]i29LA1fy5r4[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3231873, member: 75937"]Reading numismatic references from the 18th and 19th centuries is romantic in its anachronism. I imagine myself in my bifocals -- newly invented by Benjamin Franklin -- examining coins by lantern light in my study, sipping on whisky, my brain filled with the latest music of Beethoven, which I had heard performed earlier in the day by the local chamber ensemble. Post your coins with listings from antique references! ~~~ For example, here's the listing in the catalog of Sulzer's collection, published in 1777, for this coin of Volusian: [ATTACH=full]844130[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844131[/ATTACH] Or these listings in Mionnet's [I]Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines: Supplément 2[/I], published in 1822: [ATTACH=full]844136[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844137[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844138[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844139[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844140[/ATTACH] Or this listing in Wiczay's [I]Musei Hederuarii: in Hungaria numos antiquos graecos et latinos descripsit[/I], published in 1814: [ATTACH=full]844146[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]844141[/ATTACH] ~~~ And here's a magnificent string quartet by Beethoven, his 13th, composed in 1825, in B flat major, opus 130: [MEDIA=youtube]i29LA1fy5r4[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
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