The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 18, April 28, 2002, Article 17

VAN LOON'S "CONTEMPORARY NUMISMATICS"

  In response to last week's question, Bob Merchant writes:
  Robert Turfboer's translation of Van Loon's 'Contemporary
  Numismatics' is one of the best numismatic books I've ever
  read.  And I've read it at least three times.  I once
  corresponded with Mr. Turfboer, as I was hoping that
  Van Loon's magnum opus was also going to be translated
  into English, but no such luck.  This is a book that every
  numismatist should read."

  [Historian Van Loon also wrote multi-volume works on
   Netherlands medals and obsidional coinage (the coinage
  of sieges).

  An entry for 'Contemporary Numismatics' in the
  American Numismatic Association's library catalog is
  as follows:

  AA45.L6
  Loon, Gerard Van, 1683-1758.
  Hedendaagsche penningkunde = Contemporary numismatics.
  Leiden, Brill, 1995 303p. Line drawings. 34cm. Originally
  written in Dutch, first published in Amsterdam in 1717. The
  translation is from the 1732 printing. 2c. Hard cover.

  The entry doesn't mention Turfboer, whose translation was
  published in the U.S. in 1993.  So who published this 1995
  version in Leiden?  -Editor]

  About Van Loon's other works, Ron Haller-Williams writes:
  "Clain-Steffanelli says this:   14855*  Loon, Gerard van.
  "Histoire métallique des XVII provinces des Pays-Bas
  depuis l?abdication de Charles-Quint jusq?à la paix de Bade
  en MDCCXVI".  5vols.  The Hague, 1732-1737.  Dutch
  version: 4 vols. The Hague, 1723-1731.  Reprint: Leipzig,
  Hamburg: Humanitas, 1969. 2044 pp., ill."

  I would add: Dutch title (vols publ 1723 / 1726 / ???? / 1731)
  is:  "Beschryving der Nederlandsche Historipenningen:  Of
  beknopt Verhaal van ?t gene sedert de Overdracht der
  Heerschappye Keyzer Karel den Vyfden op Koning Philips
  Zynen Zoon, tot het sluyten van den Uytrechtschen Vreede,
  in de zeventien Nederlandsche Gewesten is voorgevallen".
  The volumes are big - some 18.5" x 12" x 2.4"
  If I had to, I'd settle for the 1969 reprint ..."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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