a moral and legal sense, is restoring a person to his right, or returning something Restitution unjustly taken or detained from him.

Restitution of Medals, or Restituted Medals, is a term used by antiquaries, for such medals as were struck by the emperors, to retrieve the memory of their predecessor.

Hence, in several medals, we find the letters REST. This practice was first begun by Claudius, by striking afresh several medals of Augustus. Nero did the same; and Titus, after his father's example, struck restitutions of most of his predecessors. Gallienus struck a general restitution of all the preceding emperors, on two medals, the one bearing an altar, the other an eagle, without the REST.