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Excerpt from Coins of Ancient Sicily Among the many students of ancient lifevargd' the many who, though they cannot be called students, are yet aware that there is much in ancient life worthy. Of their attention, there are not a few to whom Greek antiquities of any kind, in the concrete sense, are an unknown quantity. There are also many who, familiar as they may be with other branches Of archaeology, are somewhat bewildered by the complexity and technicality with which numismatic studies are encumbered. It may therefore not be out of place to. Devote a few introductory pages to explaining such technicalities as are unavoidable even in the most superficial treatment of Greek coins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.