See also:JOHN See also:YONGE See also:AKERMAN (1806-1873)
, See also:English antiquarian, distinguished chiefly in the See also:department of See also:numismatics, was See also:born in See also:Wiltshire
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He became See also:early known in connexion with his favourite study, having initiated the Numismatic See also:Journal in 1836
.
In the following See also:year he became the secretary of the newly established Numismatic Society
.
In 1848 he was elected secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he was compelled to resign in 186o on See also:account of failing See also:health
.
See also:Akerman published a considerable number of See also:works on his See also:special subject, the more important being a See also:Catalogue of See also:Roman Coins (1839); a Numismatic See also:Manual (184o); Roman Coins See also:relating to See also:Britain (1844) See also:Ancient Coins—Hispania, Gallia, Britannih (1846); and Numismatic Illustrations of the New Testament (1846)
.
He wrote also a Glossary of Words used in Wiltshire (1842); Wiltshire Tales, illustrative of the See also:Dialect (1853); and Remains of See also:Pagan Saxondom (1855)
.
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