L'historia avgvsta da Givlio Cesare a Constantino il Magno
A 1685 Roman numismatic catalogue, L'historia avgvsta, compiled by Francesco Angeloni and Giovanni Pietro Bellori and published in Rome by Felice Cesaretti, presenting imperial coins from Julius Caesar to Constantine for a learned patron, Queen Christina of Sweden. The pictures are engraved plates of coin obverses and reverses, numbered in sequence, with portrait busts, seated and standing allegorical figures, and mounted riders. A designer can take from them a dense, ordered grid of circular medallion frames and classical lettering.
