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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
Phrygia, of the Roman imperial period. (See Head,
Historia Xnmori/m, p. 558.)
Asiarchus—The president of the public games, whose
name appears on Greek coins, perhaps those intended
for agonistic purposes.
Association—A political or constitutional principle,
borrowed by the Romans from the East in the later
period of the Empire, and followed by the kings of
Italy (Emperors of the West), Doges of Venice, &c, in
mediaeval times. Usually in Europe the son was joined
in the government with his father, as the latter ad-
vanced in years, in order to secure the succession ; but
we also find in Italy and Germany brothers, cousins,
and other kindred associated in this way, and occa-
sionally the mother and son ruled together during a
minority. In the Italian imperial series of the eighth
century we meet on the coinage with traces of this
practice, as, for instance, a denier reads on obverse
Lvdoicicvs Imp., and on reverse AngiTberga Imp., to
signify the regency and guardianship of the Empress
Angilberga, while her son Louis II. remained under age
(855); and in another way a coin of the same series and
class, of the Christiana rel&gio type, struck at Pavia,
reads Vgo LohtariVj to denote the joint administra-
tion of Hugo and Lothair (931-946).
Atkinson—The name of the principal mint-master
of Scotland under the government ernn of the Earl of Mor
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