Books on napoleonic and art deco/nouveau medals

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Permalink Reply by Pierre Driessen on January 3, 2009 at 2:20am

Dear Paul, welcome. If you have just started collecting these types of medals, you are in for a great deal of fun and learning. My main areas of interest are: medals, jetons, coins and decorations (military and civilan) of Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, French Revolutionary, Napoleon I, Louis XVIII. As for sources for the Napoleonic period - there are a number, but they are generally difficult to obtain. They are namely: Bramsen, Essling, Scargill Mudie, Zeits, Laskey and a few others. They were for the mostly part published during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not any one of these offers a comprehensive catalogue - thus you will need several of them to get proper descriptions, explanations, etc. If you are interested, I have available high quality reprints of some of these. Regards, a fellow Napoleon collector.