The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 4John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke Royal Numismatic Society., 1864 - Numismatics With v. 1 is bound; Horta, de, chevalier. Catalogue d'une partie de la collection de médailles. Londres, J. Wertheimer. |
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| Title | The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 4 |
| Editors | John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke |
| Contributor | Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Royal Numismatic Society., 1864 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 22, 2005 |
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