Excerpt from Catalogue of the First Portion of the Important Collection of Coins and Medals Formed by the Late Wm. Boyne, Esq. F. S. A., Author of "Tokens of the Xviith Century Issued in England, Wales and Ireland," &C. &C. &C: Comprising in Gold, Silver, and Bronze, of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Series; Anglo-Saxon and English Coins; English Commemorative Medals, War Medals; Coin and Medal Cabinets; And a Large Numismatic Library Born in 1814 at Leeds, he commenced at a very early age the collecting of coins and medals, and devoting the whole of his leisure time to this pursuit, he when twenty years Old already possessed a collection of more than usual interest. It was to the Roman Series that his attention became, at first, particularly directed; and to these Coins he remained, throughout life, most partial. At about the same time he commenced to manifest much interest in the history of his native country, and his constant study and research in this direction, found expression in later life (in 1858) by the publication Of his work on the Tokens issu d in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries in Yorkshire. Whilst engaged in the gathering together of the materials for this work, he became aware of the want of, and the necessity for a work of a more comprehensive character, dealing with similar tokens issued throughout the British Kingdom. Endowed with a singular aptitude for the work, he in time collected, by his indefatigable industry, the enormous amount of information embodied in the work by which he will possibly be the best remembered, his monumental work on the Tokens issued in the 17th century in England, Wales and Ireland, published in 1858. 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.