Excerpt from The Elder Monthly, Vol. 2: Devoted to Things Numismatic, Archaeologic, Philatelic, Historic, Antique, June-July, 1907 To return for a moment to the questions of condition and differ ence of taste, it is not to be denied that some of the most precious fruits of numismatics have been gathered and applied by persons who, like the late Mr. Babington, almost ostentatiously disregarded the state of the pieces under examination; and again, there is no doubt that real and cultivated interest in the pursuit has been first awakened by the accidental or desultory acquisition in early life of a handful of old coins selected from the familar penny-box. The disadvantage which a practical and exact student incurs by the employment of defective examples lies in the inability to decipher the whole of the type; and this becomes tantalising when the object of attention is a supposed inedited variety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.