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393 - Affry de La Monnoye, (Alfred d').
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Estimate €100 - €150
Description
Affry de La Monnoye, (Alfred d'). – The tokens of the Parisian aldermen’s council. Documents relating to the numismatic history of the city council and various Parisian institutions. In the series ‘Histoire Générale de Paris’. Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1878. Large quarto in green publisher’s cardboard binding – minor scuffs to the binding – [2 leaves], XXVIII, 416 pp., [1 leaf]. Illustrated with 362 reproductions of tokens (both sides). Included: 1/ - Corre, Pierre. - Corpus of tokens bearing the coats of arms of French figures. Paris, Le Léopard d’Or, 1986. Quarto format, paperback with soft cover – [2 ff.], 473 pp., |3 pp.], 21 pp. (estimates), 37 plates (excluding text) reproducing 1,554 tokens out of the 4,967 described in the corpus. Slight rubbing on the spine of the cover. 2/ - Rouyer, Jules – Hucher, Eugène. – History of the token in the Middle Ages. Paris, Rollin; Le Mans, Monnoyer, 1858. Reprinted in Paris, P. de La Perrière, 1979. In-8, paperback – VI (preface by M. Pastoureau), 177 pp., [3 pp. errata, table of contents, blank page], illustrated with 17 plates reproducing nearly 300 tokens.
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Auction time 10/01/2026 at 10:00 AM
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