Literary Giveaway winner in last post

laurentyvan

Just post to enter

A History of Money, an oversize color hardcover from france with remarkable images and easily understood ID's on all coins presented
as well as an oversize B&W illustrated softcover on Italian coin engravers from the Museum of History and technology and the US Gov't Printing Office circa 1965.






This book while not in color is especially interesting with full history of Italian engravers and images of their work.

lordmarcovan

Oh, that painting! How awesome!

Funny how much the guy on the left resembles Charles II of England. Same period, I suppose, same fashions, but obviously French.

As to the Chinese coins, PM me a ballpark figure. I wouldn't be in the market except they're fully attributed, which I like. I could use some in inventory without the headaches of attribution.

VERY cool SSP, Laurent!

Weg

I've been playing around with the world coins for awhile. Of all countries the one which gives me headaches are the Chinese.
My hats of to the person who becomes proficient understanding these coins.
Bill

lordmarcovan

That's why their being attributed is such a selling point.

dan8402

Those are some really cool looking coins, but I don't need another sidetrack right now But, I will enter the giveaway if possible.

direwolf1972

Cool books... I love to read anything I can get my hands on. Please enter me.

robkool

I'm also into Ming & Ching Dynasty coins. Great illustration...
Enter me in this giveaway...
Thanks...

Coinguy19

You can never have too many good books, please enter me in your giveaway!

earlwbollinger

That is so cool, I love it.
please enter me in your giveaway too.
It is so tough to attribute the Chinese coins.
Thanks

sumnom

Attirbution is tough if you don't read Chinese or have a general grasp of Chinese history. It can also be very hard to spot the obvious fakes if you can't detect differences in calligraphy. In much the same way that fake western coins have sloppy legends, fake "cash" coins can have some atrocious calligraphy that serves as a red flag to the collector. The thing that gets me is that some cash coins were pretty crude to begin with so making a convincing fake is not always that difficult.

Blackhawk

Please enter me in your giveaway...and thanks for the chance!

JCMhouston

Thanks for the opportunity.

Dentuck

What's all this about Chinese coins?

Thank you for the book-giveaway opportunity!

Refrema

Thanks for the opportunity to get this book.

You can never have too many books.

Bob

ozzysdad47

Please enter me in the most generous gieaway, and Thank you for the chance

Doe's the book list any information on Joseph Pierre Lorthior. If so, would it be possible to post that info?

Thanking you in advance for any help you might be able to provide,

ozztsdad47........./ Brad....

laurentyvan

Lucky number drawn indicates Refrema is the winner.

Please PM me your address and congratulations!

laurentyvan

No Lorthior that I could find ozzysdad...

zeebob

zeebob

Oops. Sorry about the last post. Pressed ENTER after typing the password and apparently the browser thought I meant to post an empty reply...

The book offer is very generous! Please be kind enough to sign me up (only once of course) for a chance to win.

I'm going to rummage around at home and see if I don't have a book or two that I can post as a give-a-way also. Very neat idea!

Bob

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Literary Giveaway winner in last post >>

The problem with putting announcements in the "last post" is that it doesn't stay the last post for very long.

Congratulations, refrema!

BTW, Laurent (and whoever the buyer of the Chinese coins was)- when I was expressing an interest in them, I had somebody on my shoulder, so to speak. Sumnom is interested in some of those Southern Song Dynasty pieces, so if you would like to sell part of the hoard, shoot him a PM.

Refrema

PM Sent,

Thank you very much!!!

Since I do read & speak French it will be fun to read.

Thanks again,

Bob