The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

COINS AND MEDALS.

Messrs. W. S. L and Son's Calelogite of
Coins and Medal,, offered for sale at prioes affixed,
appears at intervals, 1462, New Oxford•strest,) and
the Bth pert of their issues dated January, 1866, is
now before us, so that we may take this opportunity
of recommending it to the attention of Numismatist.
and Antiquaries. We have all the parts of this
valuable catalogue, and beg leave to asy at once that
we can hardly conceive a more valuable work on
ooini and their current values—not so much rare I
coins, as those which people are apt to imagine so,
Mitwho will find, on homing to them pages, that
° Meats. W. 8. Lincoln and Son min generally supply
them at from a few pews to if.. shillings. Indeed,
it is surprieing, if we take the staple of Greek wins, 1
whether autonomous or regal, in gold, silver, or '
copper, of which Misers. Lincoln have • great ranee-
tioo ; Roman Imperial Coins in gold, abler, and
copper, from Julius Omar to the Extinction of the
Empire, comprising coins of nearly all the Emperors,
Kan Usurpers, and Binge, and many different
reverees ; Odes from Willism the Conqueror
to the preemie time, in, silver pennies, groat% Wilf-
red% sixpences, shill*" half-crowns, crowns,
wins from :•Mi and gold from Edward
laCieirt greet variety; besides &Mob, Irish, Anglo-
Wosial and Foreign Goes; and after Lbws,
Hash of the Popes in silver sod broom, IMAMS
bri nu sad white metal medals, to had bow perbot
• eabiset series of mob and all of them ages we can
complete at the market pries of individual miss,
for Om paratively little mow. Of aeons it takes
down our pride is an existing willeolicio many • peg
he Sad at how small a figure the most aberiehed
ample. are here prised. In Use present number of
the catalogue, the Roman Imperial—deserii, Ant
and mooed bran of Hadrian, hie wife Sabina, and
his adopted LaMue Mine, with the *gushy prehila
comp of •ntosinue Pim, being up tie satique
lid* to 1,610 item i The. emostenees the Papal
Medals is bests, followed by the uncosseetrahed but
not WI swims medals is 'bream and white metal,
struck ea ell isseginable ormerieos, sad by all con-
ceivable kinds GC men. We might seams our
, mien ininienly by calling the °Mime of Oboe

last. There is f r Mishima elle Argyle brass medal
(Na 1,81.7),the 01 veal) showing the Duke standing,
whilst the reverse is inscribed, " make room for Sir
Robert, no excise," and the deld represents the devil
and Sir Robert (Walpole). There are medals of the
battle of Navarino of the elder Bsonaperte, inscribed
1 voila toklait, Ix., carious metallic calendars of
various years Charles 1., Empress Eugenie,
Frederick the Greet, all the Georges and the
third Napoleon, the French Republic, the British
Admiral Vernon, Jack Wilkes., (Madallets,) William
Duke of Cumberland, (both at Culloden and
Carlide,) many of the late Prince Consort, some of
Queen Anne, even of John Bellingham.the amasein of
Percival the Prime Minister, and William Henry
Betty. "the infant Rio this," Blocher, Brougham,
Brunel, Burdett, Queen Caroline, Princess Charlotte,
Cobden, Duncan, Fox, Frederick Duke of York,
"di. soldiers' friend," the Great Eastern steamer,
Admiral Hood, (Lord Bridpore.) Nelson, 0 Connell,
Peel, Pitt, Peter the Great, Pio Noon, and many
more time can be enumerated. Thus ibis catalogue
of the contents of a London curiosity shop is itself a
minority which all must covet, and anyone may
possess by sending six or seven stamps to the address
we have given.