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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 5170867, member: 10613"]As Doug pointed out, many people contributed. You could not have someone like Eckhel without people like Petrarch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Petrarch said in a letter that often people would approach him with a request to identify a newly discovered ancient coin. "Often there came to me in Rome a vinedigger, holding in his hands an ancient jewel or a golden Latin coin, sometimes scratched by the hard edge of a hoe, urging me either to buy it or to identify the heroic faces inscribed on them." </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> In 1354, Petrarch gave some Roman coins to Emperor Charles IV. "I presented him with some gold and silver coins, which I held very dear. They bore the effigies of some of our rulers, one of them, a most life-like head of Caesar Augustus, and were inscribed with exceedingly minute characters."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> Francesco Petrarch, <i>Letters on Familiar Matters XVII- XXIV</i>. Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo (New York: Italica Press, 2005), 57.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 5170867, member: 10613"]As Doug pointed out, many people contributed. You could not have someone like Eckhel without people like Petrarch. Petrarch said in a letter that often people would approach him with a request to identify a newly discovered ancient coin. "Often there came to me in Rome a vinedigger, holding in his hands an ancient jewel or a golden Latin coin, sometimes scratched by the hard edge of a hoe, urging me either to buy it or to identify the heroic faces inscribed on them." In 1354, Petrarch gave some Roman coins to Emperor Charles IV. "I presented him with some gold and silver coins, which I held very dear. They bore the effigies of some of our rulers, one of them, a most life-like head of Caesar Augustus, and were inscribed with exceedingly minute characters." [B][/B] Francesco Petrarch, [I]Letters on Familiar Matters XVII- XXIV[/I]. Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo (New York: Italica Press, 2005), 57.[/QUOTE]
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