Delineation of Ancient and Modern Numismatics

§ IV.

Regarding the auctores authors who, as the study of coinage spread through the learned world from the 16th century onward, eruditely illustrated the subject in their writings and earned the highest praise in their own time, and who published either introductions, more general explanations of coinage, or illustrated images of coins (especially ancient ones), of whom there is no small number: we consider the following writers, arranged in alphabetical order of their names, worthy of mention here and commendable to those studying numismatics for their writings worthy of note and reading.

I. ANTONIO AGUSTÍN, a Spaniard, published Dialogos XI. de numismatibus priscis, eorumque inscriptionibus et symbolis, aliisque antiquitatibus 11 Dialogues on ancient coins, their inscriptions and symbols, and other antiquities in the Spanish language at Tarragona in 1587. Later published in Italian with figures at Rome in 1592, 1625, and 1648. ANDREAS SCHOTTUS presented them rendered into Latin and expanded with a dialogo XII. de diis deabusque gentilium, et catalogo auctorum, qui de nummis scripserunt 12th dialogue on the gods and goddesses of the gentiles, and a catalog of authors who have written about coins at Antwerp in 1617 and 1654.

II. BAUDELOT DE DAIRVAL, a Frenchman, author of the French treatise on the utility of travels.

III. LAURENTIUS BEGERUS, a German, whose most highly praised works are both the Thesaurus gemmarum et numismatum ex thesauro Palatino selectus Treasury of gems and coins selected from the Palatine treasury, Heidelberg 1685, and the Thesaurus gemmarum et numismatum Brandenburgicus selectus Selected Brandenburg treasury of gems and coins, and its continuation, published in three volumes at Cölln an der Spree in 1699 and 1700.