Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 158
of a modern franc, issued with the large portrait of the king, weretermed testons, or great heads, a term afterward applied to theshillings of Henri VIIL, in the anglicized form of testoon. In the reign of Henri II., the elegant piece, called the Henri,was issued, which has for type a… … COINS OF FRANCE. ing written his treatise on the Eoman coinage in the reign ofFrancis I. There are other coins of the Cardinal Bourbon, who,at the time of the League, was put forward under the title ofCharles X. The silver crown and its half had now commenced in France,as in other countries; and on…
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