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A 1559 Latin numismatic volume printed in Zurich at the press of Andreas Gesner, compiled by the antiquary Jacob Strada and aimed at scholars and collectors of Roman coins. Its pages present portrait busts of Roman and later emperors, each framed in a circle inside a decorative architectural border with a caption banner above and an inscribed text panel below. The images are crisp woodcut-style engravings in strict profile, and a designer could take from them the formal device of a central roundel with flanking ornament and text blocks for classical title pages.
