EUROPE. 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 exceptionally broad range of series including Byzantium, the Dark Ages, Crusader and Islamic coinages, as well as England, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and the Low Countries. Particularly valuable are the updated attributions, modern bibliographic additions, rarity notes, maps, indexes, and the greatly enhanced photographic plates, all of which make this far more than a simple reprint and establish it as a practical working reference for collectors and researchers alike. With Thomsen?s collection now preserved in the Royal Danish Museum, the work remains both a landmark of numismatic scholarship and a fascinating record of one of the most influential medieval coin cabinets ever formed. Dust jacket with several short tears and slight dusting to the top, otherwise a clean and very good example.

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