17th century Dutch antiquarian engravings featuring ancient coins or medals
lordmarcovan
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Another digression from the straight and narrow numismatic path which could tempt me one day!
Nicely framed, these would look pretty classy on someone's den, office, or shop wall.
I stumbled across them while searching keyword "engraved" looking for interesting love tokens and such.
There's barely any wall space in our cluttered, dumpy redneck trailer, so I likely won't be bidding, but I might succumb to that "impulse buy" stimulus and pull the trigger later. I thought the prices on them were pretty decent, so in the meantime, if you like 'em, by all means, have at 'em. Guess what I'm sayin' is, buy these now, or I might have to later!
I have no connection to or knowledge of the seller. They might have some other appealing engravings. For that matter, there could be a ton of this stuff out there, for all I know, but I just thought it was interesting.
1690 - MEDALS (COINS?) OF DEMETRIUS NIKATOR - LUYKEN engraving
1700 - COINS OR MEDALS OF LAST 14 SYRIAN KINGS - Dutch engraving
Nicely framed, these would look pretty classy on someone's den, office, or shop wall.
I stumbled across them while searching keyword "engraved" looking for interesting love tokens and such.
There's barely any wall space in our cluttered, dumpy redneck trailer, so I likely won't be bidding, but I might succumb to that "impulse buy" stimulus and pull the trigger later. I thought the prices on them were pretty decent, so in the meantime, if you like 'em, by all means, have at 'em. Guess what I'm sayin' is, buy these now, or I might have to later!
I have no connection to or knowledge of the seller. They might have some other appealing engravings. For that matter, there could be a ton of this stuff out there, for all I know, but I just thought it was interesting.
1690 - MEDALS (COINS?) OF DEMETRIUS NIKATOR - LUYKEN engraving
1700 - COINS OR MEDALS OF LAST 14 SYRIAN KINGS - Dutch engraving
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I have a book from the Luyken brothers with 100 different proffesions in the 17th century,
heres the one with the coin minter.
the poet translates to:
coin of silver and from gold
misfortune for many
for many put their trust in them
and suffer a life by greed
but the hart ,that knows the Lord
doesn't worship other gods.
I like this stuff, but the last thing I need to do is become a rare book collector, particularly in our humid climate.
But those single-leaf engravings seem affordable and appealing, somehow.
I wonder if the artist Jan Luyken had examples of the coins.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
he published 15 different books , many together with the help of his son , Casper Luyken (1672-1708)
The one I own is a later reprint