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The Minor Mints of Lombardy
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy. CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM. PRIMO TENTATIVO DI UN CATALOGO GENERALE DELLE MONETE MEDIEVALE E MODERNE CONIATE IN ITALIA O DA ITALIANI IN ALTRI PAESI. VOLUME IV: LOMBARDIA (ZECCHE MINORI). Roma: Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1913. Folio, original printed paper covers. (6), 588 pages; 48 fine plates of coins. Paper-backed binding very worn; pages crisp and untrimmed; first and final plates foxed, but rest generally clean. Very good. The fourth volume of this massive work, which in its entirety comprises the most extensive and comprehensive work ever written on the coinage of a single country. Original volumes are rarely offered. Most copies were originally distributed in paper covers (as here), which were not intended for permanent use. Clain-Stefanelli 10186*: "A basic reference on the Italian coinage from the Middle Ages up to 1900." Grierson 160: "Un immense ouvrage descriptif, bâti autour de la collection du roi Victor Emmanuel."
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy. CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM. PRIMO TENTATIVO DI UN CATALOGO GENERALE DELLE MONETE MEDIEVALE E MODERNE CONIATE IN ITALIA O DA ITALIANI IN ALTRI PAESI. VOLUME IV: LOMBARDIA (ZECCHE MINORI). Roma: Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1913. Folio, original printed paper covers. (6), 588 pages; 48 fine plates of coins. Paper-backed binding very worn; pages crisp and untrimmed; first and final plates foxed, but rest generally clean. Very good. The fourth volume of this massive work, which in its entirety comprises the most extensive and comprehensive work ever written on the coinage of a single country. Original volumes are rarely offered. Most copies were originally distributed in paper covers (as here), which were not intended for permanent use. Clain-Stefanelli 10186*: "A basic reference on the Italian coinage from the Middle Ages up to 1900." Grierson 160: "Un immense ouvrage descriptif, bâti autour de la collection du roi Victor Emmanuel."