Where to learn about 1530s Papal Mint coins?

Before the Elizabethan milled coins of 1561, Cellini was using a screw press to make coins for the Pope.

Does anyone know of reference works that describe the coins?

Are those in fact the earliest coins to be produced with a press as opposed to hammering?

 

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Unfortunatelly in french, here is a description of the invention of pressed coins and milled coins (parts B-1 and B-2) :
http://www.inumis.com/europe/articles/moderne/moderne2-fr.html

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Please ask for translation if something stays obscure after reading

 

The current standard reference is Alan Berman's Papal Coinage. Still available. And cheap.

 

I like this place!

http://www.amazon.com/Papal-Coins-Allen-G-Berman/dp/0970824211

Thank you both. I'll have my wife translate the French page.