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Engraving upon Copper Plates, it may it may be Skilfully performed by a Person very little Skilld in the art of drawing & utterly ignorant of the more exalted science of Composition; yet in this & in all other Countries the Die Sinker has been Expected to Prepare both drawings both of the Likeness of the Sovereign & Composition for the Reverses of his money; here it is that so few Coins of any Countries are well executed Except those of Varin in France of the Family of Hamerani at Rome and of our Simon, no Coin has been for Centuries Past worthy of Praise, till the appearance of Merchants Tokens.
The Excellence of Ancient Coins has always been as much an object of admiration To persons of Real Taste as the Lamentable inferiority of the modern ones has been a matter of censure, That The Elegant Coins of the ancient Greeks were designd by the ablest master of the times when they were Struck Cannot be doubted.
in order to Remedy this defect & to Render our Coins