THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

THE COLLECTOR SERIES
1575-76) in the multiple of twenty =£S English.
(ii.) A silver Scotish piece under Charles I., 1625, in
the multiple of three.
Praetor and Propraetor—Names of officers found on
Greek coins, sometimes the same person serving five
times.
Pretence, escutcheon of— 1The superimposition on a
shield of the personal arms of a ruler, as in the arms of
Oliver Cromwell on his coinage as Protector (1656-58).
The substitution of the eagle for the fleur-de-lis by
Napoleon I. amounted to another form of the same
thing.
Priest—One of the persons who placed their names
on the Greek money, possibly in connection with the
archaic relationship of the coinage to the temples and
the gods.
Priestess—A title found on a coin of Attuda in
Phrygia as that of a functionary responsible for the
character and authority of the money.
Proprietarius—See Navarre.
Protos—A pretension put forward by many ancient
cities on their coins, generally without reason or autho-
rity. The term occurs on money of Ephesus, Smyrna,
Nica.'a, Nicomedia, Samos, and even Perinthus.
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