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  • A young woman smoking, with silver coins representing the expense of buying cigarettes. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount, October 1965.
  • A seated blindfolded king holding up a purse filled with coins and a sceptre, with allegorical figures kneeling before him. Etching.
  • Antiquities: musicians and the suffering Job painted on the back of a door; Roman coins; a Roman inscribed stone; and the plant Sweet gale. Engraving, 1786.
  • Heart with a snake-like polyp in the left ventricle: five figures including detail of the polyp and ancient coins(?). Line engraving after E. May, 1798.
  • Andrea Odoni in a cloak edged with fur, sitting at a table with a small book and some coins, surrounded by antique statues. Engraving after L. Lotto.
  • A man wearing a cloak edged with fur is sitting at a table with a small book and some coins, he is surrounded by antique classical statues. Engraving.
  • An old woman dressed in rags holding a stick in her right hand, counting the coins in the palm of her left hand. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A hand tossing some coins with a warning not to depend on luck with AIDS; advertisement for St. Stephen's Community House by the Ministry of Health, Toronto. Colour lithograph.
  • A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.
  • A woman cooking pancakes is passing food on a plate through the window to people outside: one of them counts out his coins. Engraving by P. de Colle after C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • The sense of touch: below, a bespectacled man examines coins and valuables, above, St Thomas puts his finger into the resurrected Christ's side. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The sense of touch: below, a bespectacled man examines coins and valuables, above, St Thomas puts his finger into the resurrected Christ's side. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
  • A woman cooking pancakes is passing food on a plate through the window to people outside: one of them counts out his coins. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • Women personifying the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, are protected by Father Time, while a woman personifying antiquity points to the value of ancient coins. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after P. Berchet.
  • Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-.
  • Jupiter holds Danae captive and comes to her in the form of a shower of gold coins which Cupid gathers and puts into his quiver. Engraving by N. Le Mire after A. Borel after Annibale Carracci.
  • A woman with bare shoulders is holding a steaming object (a burning heart?) towards the peacock behind her, she is surrounded by a crown and sceptre, coins and various other items of luxury; representing Vanity. Mezzotint by J. Smith.
  • A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals ... : Which will be sold by auction, (by order of the Trustees) by Leigh and Sotheby ... On ... March the 6th, 1788, and the s[ixte]en following days.
  • Zenobia, ruler of the Palmyrene empire, is besieged in Antioch by the Roman emperor Aurelian, and gives orders for the moving of her treasure: a man carrying a large vessel filled with coins carries it past the tomb of Odenathus. Line engraving by Charles Etienne Gaucher, 1789, after J. Werner.
  • Coinage: interior view (a) coin press (b) various components of the coin press. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Chinese Manuscript coin catalogue of 1721.
  • Queenn Victoria Coin; Mellin's Food Limited
  • Queen Victoria Coin; Merllin's Food Limited
  • Snail host for liverfluke compared to coin
  • Illustrations from a Chinese coin catalogue of 1721.
  • How to catch the coin / J. Lyons & Co.
  • How to catch the coin / J. Lyons & Co.
  • A skeletal man inspects a coin. Lithograph by L. Crusius.
  • A hand holding a coin, showing scarring after corrective surgery. Photograph, ca. 1912.