The book The Arts And Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers was written by author Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Here you can read free online of The Arts And Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Arts And Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers a good or bad book?
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Under certain con- ditions however itmay acquire valueof thiskind. For example, if a considerable number of coinsof success- ive issues belonging to a particular period are found together, and no examples of a later date, there is a presumption that the deposit approximates to the time of the latest of these issues. If the coins have the appearance of freshness, this presumption is strengthened. Now in the case of the Szilagy Somlyo deposit the pieces are not coins in the strict sense but medal...lions in gold of a large size bearing the portraits of Roman Emperors of the fourth cen- 27 THE ARTISTIC OUTPUT tury, from Maximlan who died in 304 a. D. To Gratian who assumed the purple in 367. The whole number of medallions is twenty-four and some are as much as three and three-quarters inches in diameter. They are undoubtedly gifts presented by the Em- perors to their Germanic neighbours across the Danube, and it is equally certain that they have been mounted by barbarian goldsmiths. This is proved by the fact that in some cases the barbarian goldsmith has in mounting the piece mutilated the representation of the head of the Emperor, in a way quite impossible in a Roman craftsman (fig.
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