Delineation of Ancient and Modern Numismatics

from the 16th century onward, eruditely illustrated numismatics with their writings and earned the highest praise in their own time, and who published either introductions, more general explanations of numismatics, or illustrations of coins, especially ancient ones (of whom there is no small number), we think the following writers should justly be enumerated here and commended to students of numismatics for their writings, which are worthy of note and reading, arranged in alphabetical order of their names:

I. ANTON. AUGUSTINUS, a Spaniard, who published 11 Dialogues on ancient coins and their inscriptions and symbols, and other antiquities in the Spanish language at Tarragona in 1587, in folio. These were later published in Italian with figures at Rome in 1592, 1625, and 1648, in folio. When rendered into Latin and augmented by a 12th dialogue on the gods and goddesses of the heathens, and a catalog of authors who have written about coins, they were exhibited by ANDR. SCHOTTUS at Antwerp in 1617 and 1654, in folio.

II. BAUDELOT de DAIRVAL, a Frenchman, author of a French treatise on the utility of travel. Vol. II, Rouen 1727, in duodecimo.

III. LAURENT. BEGERUS, a German, whose most praised works are both the Treasury of gems and coins selected from the Palatine treasury, Heidelberg 1685, in folio, and the