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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
Coins
There is a great affinity between coins and poetry, and your medallist and critic are much nearer related than the world imagines.
Joseph Addison.
Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins.Joseph Addison.
Among the great variety of ancient coins which I saw at Rome I could not but take particular notice of such as relate to any of the buildings or statues which are still extant.Joseph Addison.
Till about the end of the third century I do not remember to have seen the head of a Roman emperor drawn with a full face: they always appear in profile.Joseph Addison.
Old coins are like so many maps for explaining the ancient geography.Joseph Addison.
I have seen an antiquary lick an old coin, among other trials, to distinguish the age of it by its taste.Joseph Addison.
You will never, with all your medallic eloquence, persuade Eugenius that it is better to have a pocketful of Othos than of Jacobuses.Joseph Addison.
