Sentence examples for reverse types from inspiring English sources

It is the reverse types of this series of coins that give them their importance.

Reverse types also represent many architectural views of great importance, and the celebration of games and festivals is frequently recorded on coins.

Imperial reverse types, if artistically less remarkable, are uniquely important for the unparalleled fullness of the historical commentary that they supply.

In 44, denarii were issued in considerable quantity by his quattuorviri, bearing the portrait of Caesar on the obverse, with such inscriptions as DICT ator) QVART um) or DICT ator) PERPETVO, and Venus Victrix or other semipersonal reverse types.

Under Victor Emmanuel III (1900 46) reverse types borrowed heavily from the antique, and his later issues reflected the influence of the Fascist regime, being dated by the Fascist era from 1936 (year XIV) as well as by the Christian.

The fundamentally religious nature of the empire was fully reflected in the coinage: throughout 10 centuries there was scarcely a single issue that did not look directly to the Christian faith, since apart from reverse types and legends, which were purely religious, the obverses showed the emperors as specifically Christian rulers by the use of adjuncts or appropriate inscriptions.

The reverse type is a floreate cross with considerable ornamentation.

Invitations to Marie-Hélène's Surrealist Ball, a year later, were printed in reverse type and had to be held up to a mirror to be read.

I still don't know if these films serve to generate a national pride here or merely a reverse type of narcissism, a reaffirmation of our inferiority".

Pastorino da Siena produced a long series of portraits of sitters of lesser rank, cast in lead without reverse type.

Henry VIII debased the gold coinage and reduced the weight of the sovereign, the reverse type of which was now the royal arms supported by a lion and dragon.