[77] Mionnet, _De la Rareté et du Prix des Medailles Romaines_, a very useful work, which no amateur collector should fail to possess, and to carry constantly about with him, _non obstant_ all the abuse heaped upon it by all the dealers. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. The original text contains several instances of unmatched quotation marks. Obvious errors have been silently corrected while those requiring interpretation have been left open. The following misprints have been corrected: "dveloping" corrected to "developing" (page 658) missing "a" added (page 684) "ancedote" corrected to "anecdote" (index)