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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2688674, member: 74712&quot;]Duplessy, Jean. Les Monnaies Françaises Féodales, Tome I. Paris: Maison Platt, 2004.</p><p>ISBN: 295103556X</p><p>Cost: €70</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]602646[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Grade: C+</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m frankly a little disappointed with Duplessy&#039;s first volume on the feudal coins of France.&nbsp; The book is primarily a catalog of the different types accompanied by line drawings.&nbsp; However, it offers little more than this.&nbsp; While obverse and reverse descriptions are provided, there is no historical background for most of the coins, and those that do receive extra attention receive very little.&nbsp; While reading through the book, I kept asking myself &quot;what is the purpose of this book?&nbsp; How does it set itself apart from Poey d&#039;Avant or Roberts?&quot;&nbsp; Sadly, I don&#039;t believe it does.&nbsp; It does differ from Roberts in that Duplessy is organized by county or duchy, but otherwise the information provided in Roberts is more useful.&nbsp; I suppose the inclusion of the legends on the coins is something Roberts does not have, this is something that can still be easily read from the line drawings (and it is this that bumped the grade from a &#039;C&#039; to a &#039;C+&#039;).&nbsp; Despite being spread over two (and a forthcoming third?) books, it is also incomplete.&nbsp; I have coins that are not contained here, and in the case of the Norman coins, Duplessy ignores many issues that have been recorded by numismatist before him.&nbsp; He even ignores Roberts&#039; work altogether, which seems like a terrible oversight of a monumental work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Duplessy&#039;s books are noted as standards for medieval French Coinage, but judging from this one volume, I doubt I will buy the second volume, or his books on royal coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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