FRANCE. The Silver Coins of Medieval France (476-1610 A.D.). Roberts, James N. Attic Books Ltd., 1996. Large-format hardcover, 587 pages, with extensive coin illustrations throughout. A major and now scarce standard reference for medieval French silver and billon coinage, valued for its practical arrangement by related design groups rather than by strict chronology or region, which makes identification unusually easy and effective in use. The work ranges widely across royal and feudal issues, links imitative local coinages to their main prototypes, and also includes related series beyond France proper, including Flanders, Luxembourg, Alsace-Lorraine, and Savoy. Particularly useful is its inclusion of Merovingian material, together with more than 7,300 well-placed illustrations, numerous maps showing the spread of related types, and cross references throughout. A very attractive copy, about new overall, clean, fresh, and in great shape for a substantial reference work of this kind.

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