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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1007

THOMSEN'S MONUMENTAL COLLETION CATALOGUE

THOMSEN, Christian Jürgensen. Catalogue de la Collection de monnaies de feu Christian Jürgensen Thomsen. Description des monnaies du Moyen-Age. Three volumes. Copenhagen 1873-1876. Small octavo, pp. 354, 4 plates; 318, plates 5-8; 288, plates 9-14. Neatly bound in contemporary morocco-backed boards, worn, backs gilt. Very scarce, and still an important record of a wonderful, and perhaps the finest of all collections of medieval coins many now in the Danish National collection in Copenhagen.
From the library of Richard Cyril Lockett, with his distinctive and attractive engraved book plate on the first pastedown of all three volumes

Thomsen died in May 1865. The coin collection, except for the medieval portion, had been dispersed in a series of public auctions, however, the medieval coins were purchased by direct treaty by some wealthy Danes, who then donated it to the Royal Coin Cabinet in Copenhagen. It was the wish of Thomsen who spent many years working on the coins at the Cabinet that there should be a catalogue of his complete collection. This is that catalogue. [3]

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