epigraphology

— Secondly, If Mr. Akerman had likewise waited to peruse my paper, and the many notes contained in it, he would have discovered that I have made use of several authentic coins and medals of Claudius, in order to illustrate and to confirm certain facts comprised in the history of that period on which I was then engaged; and those I introduced by way of collateral evidence; for, of course, I felt that, in a subject of epigraphology, my primary or direct evidence ought to be that of well-authenticated inscriptions.[…]Again; in no work of authority on epigraphology, or on numismatology, have I ever found the titular formula TRIB. POT. IX. COS. V. IMP. XVI.; and should it be noticed on any coin of Claudius.