Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen
This is a learned periodical, the Zeitschrift of the Historical Society for Lower Saxony, issued by that society in Hannover in 1850 for antiquarians and historians of northern Germany. Its plates, numbered Tafel II to IV, show engraved coins and medals with portrait busts, crowns, heraldic shields and inscriptions, arranged in grids on the page. A designer could take from them the dense, ordered layout of circular roundels with fine line engraving and classical lettering.
