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La fin de l'Empire Romain et le Monnayage Or en Italie: 455-493 by Georges Lacam (The End
of Roman Empire and Gold Coinage from Italian Mints)
Luzern, Hess, 1983. Hardbound in
two volumes. Printed in only 800 copies, 1107 pages., 60 excellent plates plus 226
exceptional enlargements of the coins in the text. Brown cloth, large format, folio,
printed on high quality printing paper. A corpus-catalog of the gold coinage of the
Italian mints of the Western Roman empire in the period from 455 - 493. Covers the gold
coins of Petronius Maximus, Marcian, Avitus, Majorian, Severus III, Anthemius, Olybrius,
Glycerius, Julius Nepos, Romulus Augustus, Basiliscus, Odovakar and Theodoric. Excellent
work and standard reference for many years to come! Dennis Kroh's Ancient Coin Reference
Reviews says "is a truly remarkable corpus-catalogue of the gold coinage of the
Italian mints of the Western Roman Empire with many surprising conclusions". It is
rated with 5 out of 5 stars!
La fin de l'Empire Romain et le Monnayage Or en Italie:
455-493 - Exceptional large 2 volumes set! French text, The End of Roman Empire and Gold
Coinage from Italian Mints. You have to see this 2 volumes set just to be able to
appreciate quality of material covered as well as superior bookbinding workmanship. |
