Table of Contents (TOC) for Medieval Coin References

[Anaximander]

I'm keen on summary tables of contents (I call them TOCs) that double as bookmarks. They speed me to the pages with coins of mints or rulers in reference works that can be otherwise slower to navigate. I find TOCs to be most useful in works that lack any form of index, something common to many references in the Sylloge Nummorum format. Some works don't need them, but some really do! 

(Click to enlarge) Print them, fold them, and write on them.

  

    

[Rand]

Of course many people prefer paper versions. But I have this EMC book as PDF from SPINK, and this solves my needs. Easy to bookmark. Sadly the sold PDF is not searchable and does not have TOC hyperlinks, but this was easily solved with Adobe Acrobat. The book sits with other books in Apple Books, so always with me.

I very much hope all future numismatic books have an electronic version.

 

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[Ten-Speed]

Always glad to hear about a good numismatic book

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Poey d'Avant can be maddening. Monnaies Féodales de France was published in 1862, so coin plates are line drawings. This is the index it should have had. Of course, the page numbers you see here are based on the reissued edition of 1961. 

 

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Added maps for each volume.

[JeandAcre]

...Aaah.  @Anaximander, I only knew one American numismatist and dealer who had a more recent (edit:) still later reprint of this, in a one-volume paperback!  --Gasp.  She was kind enough to send me some xeroxes from it, at immediate risk to the binding.

Your copy is Stunning.

(...Otherwise, I limp along with what I can still find of it in .pdf.)

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[Grimulfr]

I haven't often delved into this work but it is difficult to navigate.  Clearly not as handsome as @Anaximander's hardbound set, @JeandAcre there is a 2002 reprint which CGB have for sale, with a short but interesting overview by Paul Delorme https://www.cgbfr.com/poey-davant-ii-les-monnaies-feodales-de-france-poey-davant-faustin,lp12,a.html 

[JeandAcre]

Massive thanks for this, @Grimulfr!!!  Bookmarked and tabbed --might get it sooner rather than later. 

Poey, along with succeeding French references (Boudeau, Duplessy --and Depeyrot for Carolingian) is organized geographically.  A lot like Dannenberg, who is kind of Poey's equivalent for medieval German.  Probably the most logical approach, since with feudal issues, along with contemporary German ones, the polities themselves are so localized.  Even in the case of Carolingians, the typological overlap between issues of a given locality are so extensive that this approach makes as much sense as any other.  ...That's what makes my old, but latest Shepherd Historical Atlas (recommended --and good luck finding one) so indispensible.  (Edit:) Cf. @Anaximander's brilliant inclusion of the maps on his bookmarks!

...I'm appreciating more and more why @Annes Kabel reflexively goes to Dannenberg first.  Because, very much like Poey, it's not only older, but more comprehensive than anything later.  Relative to Dannenberg, I'm running into this more all the time with Kluge's overview of Salian coins.  Especially if you have Duplessy as a (partial) complement, to catch up with some of the more recent scholarship, he's definitely worth the price of admission!

One thing I find annoying is Poey's penchant (like Dannenberg's) to put all the plates at the end of the book.  This seems to be characteristic of mid-19th-earlier 20th centuries; it's also true of Schlumberger's L'Orient Latin.  But even there, the navigation is far easier than in (the dreaded) .pdf!

 

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[JeandAcre]

Ka-Zam!  Just ordered it.  With the shipping, it's still cheaper than it's likely to be again.

And, @Grimulfr, promise you, the esthetics of this edition (in contrast to the format, which is optimal) are not an issue.  I'm already at the place where I have to weed some books in order to have space on the bookshelves.  Which have already been usurping available wall space in the apartment for some favorite posters.  ...Running to Hokusai, Cezanne, Picasso and Bearden.  Back to the books, they're running to older American history, and other stuff I thought I should have on general principles --until it wasn't an option anymore.

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

What publisher offers Coins of the Crusader states, in pdf format?  I'd like to get that book.

[Anaximander]

Allen G Berman published Alex Malloy et al, Coins of the Crusader States. Check out this page, @Nerosmyfavorite68. The site was probably last updated in 2010. Berman (aka His Majesty Alanus I of Bermania) is a colorful character! 

No, sadly, you won't see an authorized online (or PDF) edition of CCS on this site, or anywhere else (at least yet).