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Adolf Occo, III (1524 - 1606)

Physician and numismatist. Authority - early modern
Relevant locations: Residence at Augsburg, Germany
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Imperatorum romanorum numismata, a Pompeio magno ad Heraclium.
as Authority - early modern - Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata a Pompeo Magno ad Heraclium.
References in Documents:
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b) Occo seems to mention a silver medal of this Kind. p. 105.
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b)
No 58 60 58 ............................................. 16 : 12 Head of Hadrian. ..CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG PM TRP. COS.. Reverse I think RESTITVTORI ORBIS TERRARVM. S C. The Emperor stretching out his Hand to a supplicant upon its Knee. This Coin seems to be Iron: not that any Roman Coins were originally known to be of this Metal: but the Romans both in the Common Wealth and the Empire had false Coins which passed for silver but were only Iron plated over with silver, of which this probably was one: Savot found by Trial that some silver Coins of the Roman would follow the Loadstone: they were undoubtedly of this sort., and accordingly Occo describes a Coin of his Stamp to be not Brass but Silver. p. 231. Bargrave