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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
no violence or rashness in discerning- an analogy and
prototype to the modern European convention-money.
Alpha ct Omega—An allegorical symbol found on
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many mediaeval coins. (See Hazlitt, " Coins of Europe,
pp. 61, 182.) The symbol also occurs in the Anglo-
Saxon series on the pennies of Ceolwulf of Mereia,
Edward the Martyr, and Ethelred II.
Amphktiones—A term found on a silver autonomous
coin of Delphi. These institutions appear to have been
tribal meetings at some central point in primitive times,
for the purposes of common religious cults and social
intercourse. They usually met in a temple or sanctuary.
Anepigraphic—Without a legend.
Angel—A gold coin of the St. Michael type, similar
to those found in the Continental series. It first occurs
in the 5th Edward IV., and was carried down to the reign
of Elizabeth with the half and the foui'th. Certain
pieces attributed to Edward V. have as m.m. a boar's
head, or a rose and sun united, or the two, one on
either side. In the Pembroke collection was a six-
angel piece in gold, weight 480 grains, supposed to be
a pattern, and considered unique ; it belongs to the
4th Edward VI. (See Keary's edition of Henfrey, 1885,
p. 51.)
Angelet—The half-angel, as well as a gold piece of
Henry VI. in the Anglo-Gallic series.
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