Rome.—The King of Italy has been all his life 'a devoted student of numismatics, and his col-' lection of coins and medals one of the finest in the world. He has just brought out the sixth volume of his Corpus Nummorum Italicorum," a monumental series, admirably printed and fully illustrated, which aims at giving a complete catalogue of Italian coins from the Middle Ages to the present day, whether struck in Italy or by Italians in other countries.
The variety of currencies, in the days when almost each free Commune or Renaissance Princedom issued its own money, and the exceeding beauty of some of the coins, such as the great gold florin of Florence, the "zecchino" of Venice, and the silver '"matapane" first struck by the famous blind Doge, Enrico Dandalo, make a study of Italian mints peculiarly fascinating both to the artist and the historian. The "Corpus Nummorum Italicorun'?' is the only attainable work of reference on the subject, information about Italian coins, other than ancient ones, being mostly buried. in inaccessible pamphlets or scattered articles.
The first volume (begun in the early years of the King'e reign) is dedicated to the coinage of the House of Savoy, which, though of great historical interest, in inferior in art to that of the rest of the country; the second volume deals with the mints of Piedmont and Sardinia; then follow those of Liguria and Corsica, of Lombardy and Canton Ticino. The present volume treats of the minor mints of the Venetian provinces, including Dalmatia, and the seventh and eighth volumes, in preparation, will be devoted exclusively to the coinage of the Republic of Venice. manders-in: Chief of the Western and Siberian fronts.
Another high Soviet officer. Voroshiloff, announced that in the units under his command he had been compelled to dismiss all officers of Jewish origin, as his soldiers refused. to obey their orders, and threatened to kill them.
The Revolutionary Military Council, after prolonged debates, passed a resolution providing for the gradual "'combing-out"' of all old officers of the late Imperial Army, and their gradual replacement by Communist officers trained in the new Soviet Military Schools.
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