Ezechielis Spanhemii Dissertationes de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum
A 1671 Latin scholarly treatise on ancient coins by Ezechiel Spanheim, printed in Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevir for fellow numismatists and collectors. Its pictures are plain line engravings of coin obverses and reverses, showing profile heads, standing figures, and Greek inscriptions around the rims, with the coins drawn as flat circles; a designer could take from them the disc-and-medallion framing, classical profile portraits, and the way inscriptions curve around a circular border.
