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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24265, member: 57463&quot;]Again, start with Allen G. Berman.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Papal Coins</i> by Allen G. Berman</b>.&nbsp; &quot;Papal Coins is the first complete one volume catalogue of the circulating coinage of the Popes. Incorporating recent scholarship and discoveries, such as the Tiber Hoard, it spans over1,200 years of Papal coinage, both in Italy and at Avignon. Each listing is described, along with a complete transcription of legends found in their most complete forms. All entries are cross referenced to authoritative sources and collections, including the Vatican coin cabinet. Valuations are assigned to the over 3,500 known types, hundreds of which will be found illustrated in the extensive plates. ... 332 pages (255 pages text and illustrations, plus 77 pages of plates). </p><p><br /></p><p>About the Author</p><p>Allen G. Berman is an internationally recognized expert on rare coins... His earlier works include Papal Coins, an international standard on the subject, and Papal Numismatic History. Berman is the editor of Coins of the Crusader States, the first comprehensive work of its kind in over a century. He collaborated on Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen Collection, a work prepared under the approval of the Danish National Museum. ... As an undergraduate he was given the opportunity to work directly with the American Numismatic Society&#039;s medieval collections, recataloging a portion of its holdings. At present he serves on the Society&#039;s Committee on medieval coins. He completed his master&#039;s thesis on medieval Papal coins in 1986. Berman has presented lectures to groups as diverse as the Cub Scouts and MENSA. In 1997 he was appointed an instrustor for the American Numismatic Association Summer Conference, creating a course on medieval coins ...Krause Publications, the world&#039;s largest publisher of world coin books and periodicals, has many times awarded him their Customer Service Award.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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