[212] “The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems,” London, 1865, pp. 60, 61; Anthology ix, 752; ix, 748.
[213] M. Tullii Ciceronis, “In Verrem, lib. iv,” Oratio nona, cap. 26.
[214] Ciceronis, “In Catilinam,” iii, cap. v.
[215] Georgii Longi, “De annulis signatoriis antiquorum,” Francofurti et Lipsiæ, 1709, p. 24, citing Plutarch’s life of Pompey.
[216] Ibid., p. 40.
[217] Ibid., p. 115.
[218] Edward T. Newell, “Historia numorum,” Oxford, 1911, p. 159.
[219] W. J. Andrew, “A Remarkable Hoard of Silver Pennies and Halfpennies of the Reign of Stephen, found at Sheldon, Derbyshire, in 1867,” in The British Numismatic Journal, 1st ser., vol. vii (1911), pp. 52, 56; see pl. ii, fig. 27.
[220] P. J. Mariette, “Traité des pierre gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol. i, pp. 23, 24.
[221] P. J. Mariette, “Traité des pierre gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol. i, p. 20.