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SIGHS Order & Instruction for Money Changers...

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[ SIGHS ] Order & Instruction for Money Changers ( with Wood Cutting Figures of all the Monnoyes of Europe & their qualities ) Antwerp, Verdussen, 1633, 126 ff. n. ch. Narrow folio. Very rare original edition! Full period vellum. Back with 4 nerves. Missing parts and old restorations with false title and title. Some restored ff. in the margin. Abundantly illustrated with several hundred woodcuts of coins. Amazing and precious guide of the moneychanger, illustrating hundreds of coins from all over Europe and some coins from Mexico. Includes, for example, ducats from Hungary, Turkey, Scotland, pistols from Sicily and Urbino, florins from Tyrol, reales from Mexico, etc. Rare overview of 17th-century trade and a valuable reference for numismatists.