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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3297820, member: 112&quot;]French coins. This can be problematic unless you can read French.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Gadoury books are where I&#039;d start. They are the Red Book of French coins. But because they have been around a whole lot longer than US coins, there is more than one volume needed. Another would be the Ciani book, and the Duplessy books, the Roberts book (in English by the way) and the Mayhew book. Mayhew&#039;s book covers the Gross Tournois, and parts of it are written in English, parts in French. But it&#039;s a very comprehensive book and covers a whole lot of the history, something that very few numismatic books do as most of them are little more than catalogs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another that covers a great deal of the history would be Grierson&#039;s book Coins Of Medieval Europe, but as the title suggests it covers all of Europe not just France. Nonetheless if it&#039;s history you&#039;re after you&#039;ll find it there. It is also in English. But it may not be the time period you are most interested in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that many if not most of the good books covering coins of other countries are written in other languages. To me this would be expected as authors often write about the coins of their own countries, and they usually know more than authors from other countries. It&#039;s not always the case of course but it is far more common than not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years I had to teach myself how to read at least the numismatic terminology in French, Dutch, Spanish and to a lesser degree German - if I wanted to study the coins I was interested in the most. I considered the effort part of the price one pays for knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if ya ever find an interest in the coins of the Low Countries, the Netherlands, then come talk me and we&#039;ll have something to talk about <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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