Fig. 31. — HoNORE d'Ai.bkrt, Due de Luynes 

 (1802-1867), famous I'Vcnch collector and 

 aulhor (photo covirtcsy Bibliotheque Na- 

 tionalc, Paris). 



(1858-1862), bfcame the leading authority on the 

 feudal coinage of France; Justin Sabatier (1792-1870), 

 in Monnaies byzantincs (1862), produced what still is 

 an indisjjensable work on Byzantine numismatics. 



Following similar traditions, but with a special 

 emphasis on medieval and modern times, Belgium 

 and the Netherlands produced names like Constant 

 Antoine Serrure (1835-1898), Raymond C. Scrrure 

 (1863-1899), Prosper D. Mailliet (1808-1886) (with 

 the best publication on obsidional coinages. Catalogue 

 descriptij des monnaies ohsidionales et de nkessite, 1868- 

 1873), Pieter Otto van der Chijs (1802-1867), 

 director of the coin caijinct of the University of 

 Lcyden (with his Dc munlen der Xederlanden, 1851- 

 1866), and P. Verkadc (with a numismatic history of 

 the Netherlands, Muntboek bevattende de namen en 

 qfbeeldingen van munten, 1848). The coin cabinet in 

 Brussels, founded in 1830, \\ithin a few decades 

 claimed outstanding rarities. In the Netherlands the 

 group of coins at the University of Leyden and 

 especially the cabinet in The Hague "^ were the 

 major collections. 



Due Monore dc Luynes (1802-1867), one of the 

 founders of the Institut d'Archcologie in Rome and 

 an outstanding .scholar, whose collection of almost 

 7,000 Greek coins, which he gave to the Paris cabinet, 

 was later published by Jean Babelon;"'' Louis Charles, 

 Due de Blacas, who translated Theodor Mommsen's 

 history of Roman coinage into French between 1865 

 and 1875: and Henri Cohen (1806-1880), librarian 

 at the Cabinet des Meclailles, who produced in his 

 Medailles iwperiales (1859 1868) the most popular 

 handbook on Roman imperial pieces. The lattcr's 

 simple method of arranging the coins alphabetically 

 by reverse legends under their respective emperors 

 made this catalog very easy to use by a wide public, 

 even to the present day. 



By midcentury, France produced scores of col- 

 lectors and scholars well versed in ancient and 

 medieval numismatics. P'clicicn dc Saulcy (1807- 

 1880), author oi Numismalique des croisades (1847) and 

 of various studies on Byzantine and Gallic numis- 

 matics, was also known as a collector; his 7,000 Gallic 

 coins were donated to the Paris Cabinet. Faustin 

 Puey d"A\ani, with Les monnaies feodales de la France 



Fig. 32. — Pieter Otto van der Chijs (1802- 

 1867), Dutch numismatist and director of 

 the cabinet at the University of Leyden (Div. 

 (if Xumisinalics |)hoto). 



"^ l.'iiliilngiir de la collection de Luynes: Monnaies grecques (1924- 

 1936). 



"" Sec the catalog by Dompierre, C/ioix de monnaies el medailles 

 (1910); also (Ikldkr, "Les fonctions externcs du Cabinet des 

 Mddailles de La Hayc" (1957). 



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