text:  The chief grace and value of such productions certainly consists less in the quantity or weight of the gold employed in their composition than in the beauty and delicacy of the image stamped or graven upon the metal; and the critic may object against us if our critic be in a severe mood (quod Dii avertant boni!) the rashness of the numismatist who should hope in recasting the exquisite medals of antique art to retain--or even imperfectly imitate--the touches of the Ionic or the Corinthian chisel