CHARLES RILEY COINS AND MEDALS Dealing in Coins, Medals, Commemorative Medals and Items of Numismatic Interest
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NUMISMATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

This bibliography is for guidance only. Please contact me if you have any queries. Books for sale are listed at the bottom of this page.

Commemorative Medals

Adams	JW Adams & AE Bentley, Comitia Americana and Related Medals (2007)
Adams & Chao	JW Adams & Dr F Chao, Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010)
Allen	LL Allen, The World’s Show, Crystal Palace Medals and Tokens 1851-1936 (2000)
Allen vol.II	LL Allen, Recipients of Official Crystal Palace Medals awarded &c (2006)
Attwood	P Attwood, Italian Medals c.1530-1600 in British Public Collections (2003)
Attwood BAMS	P Attwood, British Art Medals 1982-2002 (2002)
Attwood MIB	P Attwood, Artistic Circles, The Medal in Britain 1880-1918 (1992)
Bardini	F Vannel & G Toderi, Medaglie e Placchette del Museo Bardini di Firenze (1998)
Baxter	B Baxter, The Beaux-Arts Medal in America (1987)
Betts	CW Betts, American Colonial History Illustrated by Contemporary Medals (1894, reprinted 1964)
BHM	L Brown, British Historical Medals 1760-1960 (3 vols., 1980-1995)
BIHM	RP Puddester, Catalogue of British India Historical Medals (1987)
BNJ	British Numismatic Journal, journal of the British Numismatic Society (1903 to date)
Bramsen	L Bramsen, Médailler Napoleon le Grand (reprinted 1977)
Brettauer	E Holzair, Medicina in Nummis, Sammlung Dr Josef Brettauer (1937, reprinted 1989)
Carlisle	LJ Carlisle, Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets from 1788 (1983)
CD	JCM Cresswell & JB Duncan, Teutenberg - A Master Engraver and his Work (2007)
CGMP	Catalogue Général Illustré des Editions de la Monnaie de Paris (various volumes, 1978-)
Cochran-Patrick	RW Cochran-Patrick, Catalogue of the Medals of Scotland (1884)
Collignon	J-P Collignon, La Médaille Française au XIXe Siècle et l’Histoire (1989)
Collignon	J-P Collignon, La Médaille Française et l’Histoire de la Guerre de 1870-1871 (1995)
Comfort	S Comfort, Matthew Boulton’s Naval Medals (2017)
Cox	N and A Cox, The Tokens, Checks, Metallic Tickets, Passes and Tallies of Wales 1800-1993 (1994), vol.2 (2012), vol.3 (2023 with Clive Selwood)
Crummett	P A Crummett, The Temperance Movement, Its Medals & Badges (2019)
DF	D Fearon, Spink’s Catalogue of British Commemorative Medals 1558 to the Present Day (1984)
Diakov	ME Diakov, Medals of the Russian Empire, 1672-1917 (8 vols., 2004-2008)
Dietz	PF Dietz, First World War Peace Medals and Badges vol. 1 (2023), more to follow
Divo	J-P Divo, Médailles de Louis XIV (1982)
Divo	J-P Divo & F Page-Divo, Médailles de Louis XV (2009)
Divo	J-P Divo, Médailles de Napoleon III (2001)
Dry	C Dry, School Attendance Medals of England, Scotland and Wales (1992)
DW	WJ Davis & AW Waters, Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland (1922, reprinted 1973)
E	C Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values (2^nd edn., 2010)
Edge	B Edge, The First Dictionary of Paranumismatica (1991)
Edwards	E Edwards (ed.), The Napoleon Medals (1837)
Escande	P Escande, Les Médailles d’Algérie 1830-1962 (1996)
Eimer Pingo	C Eimer, The Pingo Family & Medal Making in 18th Century Britain (1998)
Eimer Wellington	C Eimer, Medallic Portraits of the Duke of Wellington (1994)
Eisler	W Eisler, The Dassiers of Geneva: 18th Century European Medallists, Vol. I (2002), Vol.II (2005)
Engstrom	JE Engstrom, The Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill (1972)
Finlay	M Finlay, The Mining and Related Tokens of West Cumberland (2006)
Forrer	L Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists (8 vols., 1904-1930, reprinted 1987)
Freeman	SE Freeman, Medals relating to Medicine and Allied Sciences (1964)
Giordano	JS Giordano, Portraits of a Prince – Coins, Medals & Banknotes of Edward VIII (2010)
Grant	MH Grant, Catalogue of British Medals Since 1760 (British Numismatic Journal offprints 1936-1941)
Grimshaw	M E Grimshaw, Silver Medals, Badges and Trophies from Schools in the British Isles 1550-1850
Grueber	H A Grueber, A Guide to the English Medals Exhibited in the King's Library (1881)
Hawkins	RNP Hawkins, Medalet and Check Makers 1788-1910 (1989)
Hennin	M Hennin, Histoire Numismatique de la Revolution Française (1826, reprinted)
Hern	B Hern, Hern's Handbook on the Medallions of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and the Anglo-Boer War (2008)
Hill	GF Hill, Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of the Renaissance (1912)
Hill & Pollard	GF Hill & G Pollard, Medals of the Renaissance (1978)
Hocking	WJ Hocking, Catalogue of the Coins, Tokens, Medals, Dies and Seals in the Museum of the Royal Mint (2 vols., 1906, 1910)
Irvine & Atterbury	L Irvine & P Atterbury (eds.,) Gilbert Bayes, Sculptor 1872-1953 (1998)
Jamieson	M A Jamieson, Medals awarded to North American Indian Chiefs 1714-1922 (1936, reprinted 2007)
Jones	M Jones, A Catalogue of the French Medals in the British Museum, Vol.1 1402-1610 (1982), Vol.2 1600-1672 (1988)
Jones CBM	M Jones, Contemporary British Medals (1986)
Julian	RW Julian, Medals of the United States Mint, The First Century 1792-1892 (1977)
Kienast	GW Kienast, The Medals of Karl Goetz (2 vols., 1980, 1986)
Kress	GF Hill & G Pollard, Medals From the Samuel H Kress Collection, Renaissance Medals at the National Gallery of Art (1967)
Laskey	JC Laskey, A Description of the Series of Medals struck at the National Medal Mint by order of Napoleon Bonaparte (1818)
Leroux	J Leroux, Médailler du Canada (1892, reprinted 1964)
Lincoln	WS Lincoln, Catalogue of Papal Medals (1898, reprinted 2000)
Loubat	JF Loubat, The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 (1880)
McCammon	ALT McCammon, Currencies of the Anglo-Norman Isles (1984, supplement 1993)
MacMaster	H MacMaster, Catalogue of New Zealand Commemorative Medals 1941-2007 (2009)
Maier	N Maier, French Medallic Art 1870-1940 (2010)
Malpas		E Malpas, Lighter than Air, Two Hundred Years of Ballooning in Numismatics (1989)
The Medal	Publication of The British Art Medal Society, published twice a year, 1982 to date
MG	Catalogue of the Montague Guest Collection of Badges, Tokens and Passes (1930)
MH	The Marquess of Milford Haven, Naval Medals (3 vols., 1919-1928)
MI	E Hawkins, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II (2 vols., 1885 reprinted 1969)
MI Plates	Plates to the above (1904-1911, reprinted as one in 1979)
Mitchener	M Mitchener, Jetons, Medalets & Tokens Vol.3 (1998), Vol.4 (2007)
Musante	N Musante, Medallic Washington (2 vols., 2016)
MYB	Token Publishing's Medal Yearbook (published annually)
Morel	LG Morel, Medallic Commemoratives of New Zealand 1865-1940 (2nd ed., 1996, supplement 2000)
Pinches	JH Pinches, Medals by John Pinches, A Catalogue of Works struck by the Company from 1840 to 1969 (1987)
Platt	JJ & AK Platt, The English Civil Wars – Medals, Historical Commentary & Personalities (2 vols., 2013)
Pollard Washington	JG Pollard, Renaissance Medals in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2 vols., 2007)
Pollard Bargello	JG Pollard, Medaglie Italiane del Rinascimento, Muzeo Nazionale del Bargello (3 vols., 1985)
Prober	K Prober, Catálogo das medalhas da República (1965)
Prucha	FP Prucha, Indian Peace Medals in American History (1971)
Puddester	RP Puddester, Medals of British India, Volume I, Commemorative and Historical Medals from 1750 to 1947 (2002)
Reilly & Savage	Reilly, R., & Savage, G., Wedgwood, the Portrait Medallions (1973)
Reinis	JG Reinis, The Portrait Medallions of David d’Angers (1999)
Ruedas	R Ruedas, Médailles de l’Outre-Mer Francais (2020)
Rulau & Fuld	R Rulau & G Fuld, Medallic Portraits of Washington (2nd ed., 1999)
SCMB	Seaby's Coin & Medal Bulletin, the monthly magazine of B A Seaby Ltd, approx. 1946-1991
Smirnov	VP Smirnov, Description de Médailles Russes 862-1908 (1908, reprinted 1990)
Spink BBM	Hayward, Birch & Bishop, British Battles and Medals (7^th ed., 2006)
TH	TA Hardy, Remember Nelson: Campaign and Commemorative Medals, Portrait Medallions and Associated Insignia 1797-2005 (2nd ed., 2005)
Taylor	J Taylor, The Architectural Medal, England in the 19th Century (1978)
TTC	Thailand Treasury Department, Medals of the Rattanakosin Era 1782-1982 (1982)
Trowbridge	RJ Trowbridge, History, Coinage, Paper Notes, Medals and Memorabilia of Edward VIII of Great Britain 1894-1972 (1974)
Thompson	PJ Thompson, The Dassier Family and its Medals (2000)
Trusted	M Trusted, German Renaissance Medals, A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum (1990)
vL	G van Loon, Medallic History of the Low Countries 1555-1716
vL (2021)	G van Loon, Medallic History of the Low Countries 1555-1716 (English edition edited by John Saunders & Hugo Vanhoudt, 4 volumes 2021)
WE	A Whittlestone & M Ewing, Royal Commemorative Medals 1837-1977 (8 volumes)
Welch	C Welch, Numismata Londinensia, Medals struck by the Corporation of London to commemorate important municipal events 1831-1893 (1894)
Withers	P & BR Withers, Token Book 3 – Tickets & Passes and their Values (2016)
Woolf	N Woolf, The Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement (1988)
British and World Coins and Tokens
Bell Buildings	RC Bell, The Building Medalets of Kempson and Skidmore 1796-1797 (1978)
Bell Copper	RC Bell, Copper Commercial Coins 1811-1819 (1964)
Bell Political	RC Bell, Political and Commemorative Pieces Simulating Tradesmen's Tokens 1770-1802 (1987)
Bell Specious	RC Bell, Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation 1784-1804 (1968)
Bell Tradesmen	RC Bell, Tradesmen’s Tickets and Private Tokens 1785-1819 (1966)
Bell Unofficial	RC Bell, Unofficial Farthings 1820-1870 (1975), and Supplement by Bell, Whitmore , Sweeny (1994)
D	R Dalton, The Silver Token Coinage 1811 and 1812 (1922)
DH	R Dalton & SH Hamer, The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century (1910-1918, reprinted 1990)
DW	M Dickinson & GC Williamson, Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and their Values (1986)
KM	Krause Mischler, various catalogues
N	JJ North, English Hammered Coinage (2 vols., 3rd ed., 1994)
R	Renniks Australian & New Zealand Token Values (2012)
S	Spink’s Standard Catalogue of Coins of England & The United Kingdom (annual)
S	Spink’s Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands (4th ed., 2020)
W	P and B Withers, British Copper Tokens 1811-1820 (1999)

Books for Sale
Clicking on the Stock Reference Number will bring up larger photographs and further details
Please note - where a book is large or heavy, postage guide cost is indicated after the description
It will be apparent that I have yet to perfect the art of photographing books, but I work on the principle that some sort of illustration is better than none!

Stock Reference No.	Author	Title	£
2263	Abbott, P.E., & Tamplin, J.M.A.,	British Gallantry Awards (1971)	£20
0004	British Art Medal Society	The Medal No.14, Spring 1989	£10
1620	Jones, Mark	British Museum, Acquisition of Medals 1978-1982 (1985)	£12
2260	Pardo, Oscar	Condecoraciones Argentinas, La Orden del Liberador San Martin (1972)	£22
2264	Poulsom, Neville	The White Ribbon, a Medallic Record of British Polar Exploration (1968)	£35
4394	Sotheby (London)	European Historical Medals from Alnwick Castle (2 vols., 1980, 1981, with prices realised)	£75

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