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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew, post: 12017, member: 731&quot;]This from:</p><p><a href="http://www.moneymuseum.com/standard_english/raeume/geld_lieben/leidenschaft/forschen/erste_muenzforsch/erste_muenzforsch_unten.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.moneymuseum.com/standard_english/raeume/geld_lieben/leidenschaft/forschen/erste_muenzforsch/erste_muenzforsch_unten.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.moneymuseum.com/standard_english/raeume/geld_lieben/leidenschaft/forschen/erste_muenzforsch/erste_muenzforsch_unten.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1511, Margarethe Peutinger, wife of the Humanist Conrad Peutinger, sent a treatise on the images and titles of the Roman Emperors on the coins of their times to her brother Christopher Welser, asking him to arrange the publication of this work.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Although I can&#039;t find whether or not it was actually published.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And from the same site, here&#039;s a useful reference book on numismatics <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&quot;In 1553, Guillaume Rouille published in Lyon his work &quot;Promptuaire des médailles des plus renommées personnes qui ont ésté depuis le commencement du monde&quot; (Collection of medals of the most famous persons who have ever lived since the beginning of the world). In fact, he attributed the coin portraits quite arbitrarily, claiming to find images of Adam, Noah and Agamemnon, for example. He had little interest in the real subjects.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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