Numismatic Journal - 1837 Author:John Yonge Akerman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: memoir is incapable of giving utterance to statements, of the truth of which he has not well assured himself. An ardent love for what is beautiful in art, and a ... more »desire to do justice to one of the first medallic artists the world ever produced, are apparent in every page of his interesting sketch; the perusal of which we regret should necessarily be limited. The volume concludes with a detailed catalogue of the works of W. Wyon, to which we shall have occasion to refer in our future numbers. No. 2. ESSAI DE CLASSIFICATION DES SUITES MONETAIRES BYZANTINE, par F. DE SAULCY.—Metz. 8vo. pp. 488,—and an Atlas of xxxiii Plates. " We hail with pleasure every new work on the subject of medals, as evidence that the study is daily gaining ground in Europe. Of this fact, indeed, we have the best possible assurance in the success of more than two numismatic periodicals on the Continent. M. F. de Saulcy, the result of whose researches in medallic science will be found in various papers in the " Revue de la Numismatique Fran- coise," has produced a work, the contents of which are as valuable as its exterior is elegant. The plates, executed by Dembour of Metz, from designs made by the careful and experienced hand of the author, are all that can be desired, and must prove of infinite service to the student of Byzantine coins—a difficult series, even to the most practised Numismatist. A personal acquaintance with the late Baron Marchant, whose series of admirable letters on the Byzantine coins, is now out of print, and difficult to obtain entire, joined to the possession of a well-arranged cabinet, and access to that of his relative, M. Soleirol, has enabled M. de Saulcy, to add several unpublished specimens to his excel chapter{Section 4lent work; the arrangement of which we cannot too...« less