THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
Prytank—The name of an officer who signed the
money in some of the Greek cities (Apamaea, Cyrene,
Pergamos, Smyrna, &c), and sometimes without the
person himself being specified.
Quadriga—A Greek or Roman four-horse chariot.
Quaestor—An officer who signed the money occa-
sionally in Macedonia Romana and in Mysia.
Quarterings—The heraldic cognisances introduced
into the divisions of a shield of arms on coins, and
varying from four to fifteen or upward, the larger
number arising of course from intermarriages and other
modes of succession.
Rampant—In heraldry the word used to denote a
lion, leopard, &c, reared on its hind-legs. The arms
of Gueldres are tAvo lions rampant vis-a-vis.
Restrike, Fr. rejrappe—A modern, or at least more
recent, impression from the original die.
Rider, with the two-thirds, one-third, and half 1—
gold denomination of Scotland, borrowed from the
Continental money of the same class or type. The
rider first appeared in 1475 under James III. (2nd
coinage) ; the divisions were added in the first coinage
of James IV., 1488. The piece was continued, with
modifications, down to the reign of James VI.
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