Description
Coins (front and backside). Left side, Antiquity: 1) Aegina, Attica, 510-490 BC, silver, didrachm, turtle; 2) Attica, Athens (490-407 BC), tetradrachm, silver; 3) Thrace, Ainos, c.474/3 - 449/8 BC, tetradrachme, silver; 4) Tetradrachme of Elis, Zeus and eagle, c.400 BC; 5) Decadrachm of Syracuse, Sicily, c.400 BC; 6) Gold stater with portraoit of Phillip II of Macedon, ca. 340 BC; 7) Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, head of Heracles, Babylon 325 BC; 8) Tetradrachm with the portrait of Bactrian King, Eukratides, circa 170 - 145 BC; 9) Gold Daric of Persian king Darius III, Babylon, c.336-330 BC; 10) Jewish silver shekel, Judaea, Jewish War, 66-77 AD; 11) Denarius, helmeted head of Roma and Castor and Pollux galloped, X=10 Asse; 12) Silver denarius with the portrait of Julius Caesar and Juno with two draft horses, Rome, 44 BC; 13) Cast Roman bronze as with head of Janus and a ship, c.150 BC; 14) Silver quinarius, Roman Republic, after 211 BC; 15) Roman sestertius, helmeted head of Roma and Castor and Pollux galloped, IIS=2,5 Asse; 16) Roman coin, half-length portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and his co-emperor Lucius Verus, 161-180 BC. Right side, 5th-17th century: 1) Denarius of Charlemagne (768-814), Mainz; 2) Silver coin, Odoacer period (476-493); 3) Denarius of Henry IV (1056-1106), Duisburg; 4) Denarius of Otto III (980-1002); 5) Bracteate of Frederick I (1122-1190); 6) Denarius of Otto I (912-973), Strasbourg; 7) Bracteate of Archbishop Wichmann von Magdeburg (before 1116-1192); 8) Denarius of King Cnut of England (c.995-1035), Oxford; 9) Golden augustalis of Frederick II (1194-1250), Brindisi; 10) Penny (Groschen), Aachen (1492); 11) Silver coin (Teston) of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan (1351-1402) and Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508); 12) Thaler of Sigismund (1427-1496); 13) Thaler of Maximilian I (1459-1519); 14) 3 Gröscher of Duke Albert of Prussia (1490-1568); 15) Quarter thaler of Wallenstein (1626); 16) Thaler, Lübeck (1557). Woodcuts, published 1897.