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Traité des finances et de la fausse monnoie des Romains, auquel on a joint une dissertation sur la maniere de discerner les médailles antiques d'avec les contrefaites

Chassepol, François de, 17th cent, Beauvais, Guillaume (1698-1773) · 1740 · Paris : Briasson · 6 pictures

A 1740 Paris treatise by François de Chassepol and Guillaume Beauvais on Roman public finance, counterfeit coinage, and telling antique medals from forgeries, published by Briasson for antiquarians and collectors. The plates here are typographic ornament rather than numismatics: woodcut headpieces of scrolling acanthus, flower sprays tied with ribbon, and banded rules filled with diapered star lattice, useful as borders, dividers and spot ornaments.

Finance · Revenue · Counterfeits and counterfeiting · Medals · Forgery of antiquities

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