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 160
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… … ®1)e 0trtking of Jttebals anir (ttmn0. It was no part of the design of this work to go into a historyof medals, or attempt any description of those which are illus-trated in this volume. The art of making coins and that of mak-ing medals is one art, and the splendor of national coinage hasalways…
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