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Excerpt from Mason's Monthly Coin and Stamp Collectors' Magazine, Vol. 4: July, 1870 It may justly be observed that the knowledge of Greek medals is most necessary for a sculptor and perhaps an architect; while that of the Roman is the more interesting to a poet and a painter. This is owing to the former containing chiey the head of some king, some god or goddess of exquisite relief and workmanship on the obverse; while the reverse seldom in the early Greek coins affords much fancy of symbol, and in the Imperial Greek coins is chiey impressed with temples of their deities. 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.