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JOHN YONGE AKERMAN (1806-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 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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