Delineation of Ancient and Modern Numismatics

§. XIV.
Regarding the discourse on ancient currency in comparison to the diverse currencies of nations of more recent time, compare Guillaume Budé, On the As, 5 books, joined with the compendium on the As; Paschasius Grosippius in Literary Paradoxes, page 85 and following; the Collection of Nicolaus Mameranus, joined with Leonhard von Portis on ancient monetary matters, and Johannes Aquila on the power and utility of coins, in collected small works (Cologne, 1551, octavo); Tables of the numismatic subject of the Romans and Greeks, recalled to Belgian, French, Spanish, and Italian currency (Antwerp, 1616, octavo).

§. XV.
Sebastian Erizzo, using the pseudonym Sebastian Echinus, a Venetian, in a treatise published four times in Venice in the 16th century, titled "Discourse on the coins of the ancients, with an explanation of consular coins and Roman imperial medallions," denied that ancient coins, which today pass by the name of numismatics, were in the place of currency and in use for trade among the ancients. But indeed, the same is certain, and Aeneas Vicus and Ludovicus Savotus have abundantly proved the contrary. Compare prolegomena § 5, and Carolus Patinus, History of Numismatics, Chapter V, on the difference between currency and coins, page 27 and following.

§. XVI.