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Excerpt from Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum: Department of Coins and Medals; A Guide to the Italian Medals Exhibited in the King's Library The necessities of arrangement, which require attention to the appearance of the exhibition as a whole - as for example the desirability of not placing the finest pieces where they would be ill seen, or of allowing comparatively poor specimens to intervene between the finest, or again of bavin g small medals continually alternatin g with large ones - make it impossible to display the medals strictly in accordance with chronological order. But with the help of the following prefatory remarks, as well as with that of the biographical notices and indexes, any difficulty that might thus arise will be removed. 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.

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