Numismatics

My thanks are due to Mr. J.C. Witton (Vol. ii., p. 42.) for his replies to my Numismatic Queries, though I cannot coincide with his opinion on Nos. 1. and 3. No ancient forger would have taken the pains to cut a die to strike lead from; and my specimen, from its sharpness, has clearly never been in circulation: why may it not have been a proof from the original die? Of No. 2. I have since been shown several specimens, which had before, I suppose, escaped my notice. On the coin of Macrinus, the letter below the S.C. now clearly appears to be an η, but the one above is not a Δ, but rather an L o…