THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

THE COLLECTOR SERIES
mense importance for the royal and feudal money of
France. The collections of the Cavaliere Rossi and
of the Reimmann and Meyer families were indirectly
instrumental in enlarging our acquaintance with the
earlier coinages of Italy and Germany.
Some incidental notices will occur respecting Oriental
coins. This is almost a class apart, and from the
difficulties offered by the legends it is one sought only
in specimens by ordinary European collectors. The
majority of the more modern productions of this char-
acter are obtainable at rates very slightly in advance
of the metallic values. The late keeper of the Medal
and Coin Department of the British Museum possessed
a special knowledge of the Oriental side of numismatics,
and we are indebted to his scholarship for the ably
edited volumes on the subject published under the
direction of the Trustees, and to which the reader
cannot do better than refer.
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