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[Numismatics]. Corpus Nummorum Italicorum. First attempt at a general catalog of medieval and modern coins minted in Italy or by Italians in other countries. Rome, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Cecchini, Stabilimento tipografico Ditta C. Colombo, 1910-43. In 2nd (317 x 240 mm). Nearly 700 plates of coins, many volumes with slip of Milanese seller Hoepli on title page (sporadic browning to plates, volume 20 in Forni facsimile because officially never published). Parchment binding with gilt title to spine, gilt upper edges. Ex libris Giulio Bernardi. Monumental work that is still fundamental for the study and classification of the issues of the various Italian Mints from theMedieval period onward. 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." In the lot also E. Dotti's Tariff of Medieval and Modern Italian Coins "according to the order followed by the Corpus Nummorum Italicorum" of 1913, and Cornelius von Fabriczy'sItalian Medals of 1904. (22)
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[Numismatics]. Corpus Nummorum Italicorum. First attempt at
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