 | Numismatics - 1889 - 490 pages
...enterprise, it became the more necessary that the individual pieces should receive the guarantee of the moneyer or firm of moneyers, who had made themselves...qualities. It was open to him in some cases, if he was a great artist, to lay stress on that side of his character and sign upon a coin as he might upon a gem.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Evans - Coins, Greek - 1889 - 288 pages
...enterprise, it became the more necessary that the individual pieces should receive the guarantee of the moneyer or firm of moneyers, who had made themselves...qualities. It was open to him in some cases, if he was a great artist, to lay stress on that side of his character and sign upon a coin as he might upon a gem.... | |
 | Coins - 1904 - 394 pages
...necessary that the individual pieces should receive the guarantee of the moneyer or firm of moneyers, %\ho had made themselves responsible for their sterling...qualities. It was open to him in some cases, if he was a great artist, to lay stress on that side of his character and sign upon a coin as he might upon a gem.... | |
 | Leonard Forrer - Medalists - 1907 - 678 pages
...necessary that the individual pieces should receive the guarantee of the moneyer or firm of moneyers, \vho had made themselves responsible for their sterling...qualities. It was open to him in some cases, if he was a great artist, to lay stress on that side of his character and sign upon a coin as he might upon a gem.... | |
 | Leonard Forrer - Medalists - 1907 - 664 pages
...enterprise, it became the more necessary that the individual pieces should receive the guarantee of the moneyer or firm of moneyers, who had made themselves...qualities. It was open to him in some cases, if he was a great artist, to lay stress on that side of his character and sign upon a coin as he might upon a gem.... | |
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... employment even from remote quarters. But where a system of this kind prevailed and the coinage of the State, instead of issuing as at Athens from a central mint, was entrusted to private enterprise, it became the more necessary that the individual... 