EUROPE. Medieval European Coinage, Volume 14: Italy (III), South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Digitally printed paperback, 793 pages, 63 plates with facing text. A major and very useful volume in the Medieval European Coinage Grierson, Philip, and Lucia Travaini., series, covering the rich and complicated coinage of South Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia from the mid-10th century to the age of Ferdinand the Catholic, and including the pre-Norman issues as well as the coinages of the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and Aragonese rulers. The region?s political and monetary history is especially complex, and that is exactly what makes this one of the more interesting and rewarding volumes in the series, both for study and for attribution. A very attractive copy, about new overall, clean, fresh, and very well kept, with only the lightest signs of handling.

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