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Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen Collection, Volume 1 by Kristian Erslev, here in the 1992 Attic Books English edition revised and expanded by Alan M. Stahl and Allen G. Berman, is a major and highly important reference for medieval numismatics, based on one of the great historic collections of Europe. Originally published in Copenhagen in 1873, this substantial hardcover volume catalogues over 4,100 coins and covers an...

Medieval European Coinage, Volume 6: The Iberian Peninsula. A major and very useful reference, and the first English-language survey to bring modern research on the coinage of Spain and Portugal, circa 1000-1500, to a wider international audience. Written by leading specialists, it provides an authoritative study of the coinages of Aragon, Catalonia, Castile, Leon, Navarre, and Portugal, treating them together in a way rarely attempted and...

Svensson, Roger. Renovatio Monetae: Bracteates and Coinage Policies in Medieval Europe. Spink, London, 2013. Hardcover, laminated boards, A4 format, 284 pages with 16 plates and facing text. A serious and very useful study of medieval European bracteates and the monetary policies behind them, issued here as the revised English translation of the related work first published by the Swedish Numismatic Society in 2012. A clean and attractive...

The Low Countries and France, Vol. 2. Mitchiner, Michael. Hawkins Publications, 1 February 1991. Hardcover, 864 pages. A substantial and very useful reference, this large-format volume is the second in Mitchiner?s three-volume series and deals with the jetons, medalets, and tokens of the Low Countries and France from the mid-16th century to the modern period. Of particular value is its treatment of the Low Countries jetons, which are...

The Mediaeval Period and Nuremberg, Vol. 1. Mitchiner, Michael. Hawkins Publications, 1988. Hardcover. A substantial and highly useful reference, this first volume in Mitchiner?s series on jetons, medalets, and tokens is divided into three main parts: an opening study of earlier metalworking traditions, using Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon artefacts to place later production in context; a major survey of medieval jetons from the later 13th...

The Silver Coins of Medieval France (476-1610 A.D.). Roberts, James N. Attic Books Ltd., 1996. Large-format hardcover, 587 pages, with extensive coin illustrations throughout. A major and now scarce standard reference for medieval French silver and billon coinage, valued for its practical arrangement by related design groups rather than by strict chronology or region, which makes identification unusually easy and effective in use. The work...

Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II. William D. Craig. First edition, 1954. 8vo, tan cloth with black titled panel to upper board and spine, vii + 242 pages, illustrated with in-text cuts, armorial devices, and tables. A wide-ranging, workbench-friendly survey of German and Central European coinages from the Carolingians to Wilhelm II, with useful introductory sections on heraldry, monetary history, mint organisation, and...

The Anglo-Gallic Coins (Les Monnaies Anglo-fran?aises). E.R. Duncan Elias. Paris and London, Emile Bourgey and Spink & Son Ltd., 1984. Hardback in glossy green pictorial boards, 262 pages, well illustrated, with a preface by Fran?oise Dumas. ISBN 0-907605-10-9. The standard single-volume catalogue of Anglo-Gallic coinage from the Plantagenets through Henry V and Henry VI, arranged by reign and issuing authority with clear type...

The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain (Revised Edition). Michael J. Freeman. London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1985. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt spine, 251 pages, with 18 plates and tables. ISBN 0-09-155240-0. The standard practical guide to British bronze from the Victorian recoinage through to decimal issues, arranged by denomination and period (pennies, halfpennies, farthings, decimal coinage, then patterns and trials). It sets out the Freeman...

Tokens of the Industrial Revolution: Foreign Silver Coins Countermarked for Use in Great Britain c. 1787-1828 by Harrington E. Manville, published by Spink & Son Ltd in 2001, is an important and highly specialised study of one of the most fascinating byways of British numismatics, examining the foreign silver coins countermarked for circulation in Great Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Issued as a British...

Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages. Alan M. Stahl. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the American Numismatic Society, 2000. Hardback, 497 pages, in the publisher?s dust jacket. ISBN 0-8018-6383-X. The standard modern study of the Venetian mint from the ninth through the fifteenth century, built on deep archival work alongside the close study of thousands of coins and hoards, and setting out how the Zecca...

Italian Coinage: Medieval to Modern, The Collection of Ercole Gnecchi. L. and L. Hamburger (auctioneers). Facsimile reprint of the Frankfurt am Main sales of 1901 to 1902. Oakdale, New York, Alfred Szego, 1973. 4to (approx. 28 ? 21 cm), textured blue printed card covers, perfect bound. A faithful facsimile of the three Hamburger auction catalogues for the famous Gnecchi cabinet, reproducing the original French and German text with the...