Ex libris XXIII commentariorvm in vetera imperatorvm Romanorvm nvmismata Aeneae Vici liber primus
A 1560 Venice printing by Enea Vico, a Renaissance antiquarian, that records ancient Roman coins as line-engraved plates for scholars and collectors of antiquities. The pictures show paired obverse and reverse coin portraits with laurel-wreathed emperors, lettered legends around the rims, and small standing figures of deities, set in clean outlined engraving that a designer could draw on for classical medallion and seal motifs.
