exergue
noun/ɪɡˈzɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
Etymology Borrowed from French exergue.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Numismatics A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.
- In farther eviction of what has been advanced, relative to the initial letters in the exergues of certain Sidonian coins; it may not be improper to observe, that a medal in my small collection exhibits the letter Hheth, immediately after the numerical inscription in the exergue.1765, Philosophical Transactions, page 138:
- In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
- Derived terms
- exergual