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Richard Margolis's First Numismatic Paper
Margolis, Richard. THE NUMISMATICS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON. Original typescript, annotated by hand in colored pencil, and bound. 4to, original blue quarter calf; front cover and spine lettered in gilt. 18 leaves, including two leaves with clipped illustrations of coins; binder's leaves added for bulk. Fine or nearly so. A college paper written by Margolis on the subject of the numismatics of the French Revolution. Researching this paper did much to attract his interest to this area, as he discussed in The Medal (No. 20, 1992): "In 1952 I joined the American Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Association, and that same year a course in the history of the French Revolution and Napoleon at New York University taught by the late professor Leo Gershoy led to a keen interest in the numismatics of this period. This interest has never waned, and in the intervening forty years I have been able to form a highly specialised collection, numbering some 3000 pieces, of French coins, essays, and private tokens from 1789 to 1815." While not a mature numismatic work, a very important paper indeed for Margolis.
Margolis, Richard. THE NUMISMATICS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON. Original typescript, annotated by hand in colored pencil, and bound. 4to, original blue quarter calf; front cover and spine lettered in gilt. 18 leaves, including two leaves with clipped illustrations of coins; binder's leaves added for bulk. Fine or nearly so. A college paper written by Margolis on the subject of the numismatics of the French Revolution. Researching this paper did much to attract his interest to this area, as he discussed in The Medal (No. 20, 1992): "In 1952 I joined the American Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Association, and that same year a course in the history of the French Revolution and Napoleon at New York University taught by the late professor Leo Gershoy led to a keen interest in the numismatics of this period. This interest has never waned, and in the intervening forty years I have been able to form a highly specialised collection, numbering some 3000 pieces, of French coins, essays, and private tokens from 1789 to 1815." While not a mature numismatic work, a very important paper indeed for Margolis.