. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 31.—HoNORE d', 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-
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 31.—HoNORE d', 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, eve
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