The First Number of the Nainionati:. Journal, edited by Mr.
AKERMA N. The success of tbk work will depetal upon tire number of persons who take an interest in the subjects it treats of being sufficient to support its sale. Judging by the uses of such a periodical, the name of the editor, and the variety of the contents in the First Number, it ought to succeed. If a sci- ence like natural history, where the materials are produced in such abundance, is greatly advanced by the single facts collected by a number of observers, how much more is a point of reunion, where each individual may bring his modicum of information or sugges- tion, desirable in numismatic science, shire in this case the subjects are sometimes so unique as to be limited to one or two codections, Or so scarce that their existence is matter of doubt ; whilst facts as to the discoveries of coins, or hints with regard to the explana- tion of obscurities, however important to the pursuit, have too little attraction for the public to be noticed systematically- if at all in popular journals. Contributions of this kind, however, require to be tested by knowledge and arranged by taste ; and, judging from his splendid work on " Rare and Unedited Roman Coins,- or that on the "Coins of the Romans relating to Britain," we should opine that few are more competent to the task than Mr. AKERNIA N. Apparently, too, he proposes to make it some- thing more than a mere receptacle kw floating knowledge or isolated facts; for he has himself furnished an able paper on the Unpublished Coins of Nicata, and commenced the publication of an unfinished manuscript work by the late Dr. J. G. KING, on the most remarkable coins of the Roman Consular series.
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