Historical-Political Dissertation on Coins, Both Functional and Commemorative

the lost drachma of the woman, but found again (Luke 15:8-9). In civic eloquence, moreover, a pleasant amplification and illustration is not rarely made from commemorative coins, as the famous Weisius says in der Oratorischen Nachlese (Oratorical Gleanings), p. 27. For this reason, the oratorical historian Christian Adam Rupert is celebrated, as he is filled with coins and Roman antiquity. Furthermore, this knowledge is quite conducive for Christian Poets in composing verses, as, for example, two of those pious and learned songs prove: the first is by Lankisius, just praised, p. 499, "How God! O man! Loves you, etc." The other by Sigism. à Bircken, that famous poet by the surname of Betulius, whose inscription is der verlohrne Groschen (The Lost Groschen):

God! We carry your divine image,
You have struck us as a coin, etc.

And how many various utilities, moreover, result from this study of ancient and modern coins, when genuinely and eruditely treated, for History itself of every kind, both ancient and more recent? We shall see about this in its proper place in the Question concerning Numismatic History. Who, for example, would not recognize what distinguished uses the History of SACRED numismatic matters offers to students of Sacred Theology? Such as, for example, that which the Magnificent Mr. D. Joh. Andr. Schmidius (to whom not a few practitioners of numismatics voluntarily profess to owe much) is said to have written for the use of his former students in private pages, according to the no less excellent man in this study, Mr. D. Burcardus Gotthelff Struvius, in Bibliotheca Numismatum antiquorum (Library of Ancient Coins), p. 79, where he himself publicly asks the most excellent Mr. Schmidius to publish it for the public good, to whose desire we are also most strictly bound, unless that excellent labor has meanwhile seen the light of day. But as for the history of our own age, a brilliant