De Nummis Cretensium Serpentiferis Disquisitio Antiquaria: Qua Cretensium Ab Asia, Asiaticorumque à Serpentibus credita Origo adstruitur: Indeque & Numismatibus serpentiferis Antonii Et Augusti, Aliorumque sua Lux affunditur
A 1702 antiquarian dissertation by Lorenz Beger, printed in Latin, on ancient Cretan coins decorated with serpents, aimed at scholars and numismatists. Its plates show paired coin obverses and reverses engraved in fine line, with snakes coiled around altars, pillars and vessels, and laurel-wreathed portrait heads. Designers could draw on the tight circular roundels, the interlocking serpent knots, and the wreath borders as ornament.
