of the 4th December our pondent mentioned an of Ancient Roman coins yo now to thank of Peking, for a copy of phier 'Ancient Roman coins frot an extract from the Journal of the Peking Oriental Suciety. 'The coins wers number, and were sent' recent! to Peking by a banker named Yang. They were in the possession of the Yang family for fifty or sixty years, and were originally purchased from the discoverer, who found them in " field in the neighbourhood of mall district-town in i, about eighty miles from the capital of the province. The sixteen Roman chiva include examples of the money of twelve emperors, ranging from Tiberius, exly in the first century A.D., to Aurelian, who died in the your 275," Marcus Aurelius, who is recorded in the Chine ding an embassy AD. being rendered (Antoninus) is represented b two All are of two, the of collectors. The weight varies from 435 grains, that of the large sestertius of Marcus Aurelius, four of which were equivalent to Iver denarius containi 1 ounce of silver, to 35 grai semisses of Aurelianus." A little copper Ill, Roi do Fra 1589, had foun collection, and was sent Dr. Bushell says:—" I tone other instance of the discovery of Roman coins in China, Two were in the possession of the Into Mr. Lyall, a much regretted member of our society, who bought them, I believe, at a way-stall at Tientin, Nor have I soon any figured in Eh numismatic books ud catalogues, although these often i clude more modern European coins, reproduced with acme accuracy; their method being to take a rubbing of the coin with thin paper, and to paste this upon the wood-block, ao that the cut is made without any knowledge of the alphabet, and yet the inscription. is generally fairly legible, The figures, on the contrary, drawn these books to illustrate extracts bexti upon more ancient fore ins, quot from the dynastic histories, are purely i aginary. But happily there is no question,
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