superscription

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Many wore badges cut from the large copper coins then in use and bearing the sacred image and superscription of Liberty.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

The latter took it, looked carefully at the superscription, read it slowly through, then folded it with cool deliberation and put it back into the envelope.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.

"Margaret Van Eyck," was the reply: for they naturally thought the contents were by the same hand as the superscription.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Did Christ think that the money belonged to Cæsar because his image and superscription were stamped upon it?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

I cried; but he would not suffer me even to read the superscription.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth