The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 11, March 14, 2004, Article 8

FREY, MUNZBUCH SOUGHT

  Bob Fritsch writes: "While researching some Swiss stuff, I
  ran across a reference in an 1880 work [Henseler, A.;
  "Antoine Bovy, Sa vie et ses principlaes oeuvres." 1880:
  Fribourg] cited minimally as "Frey, Munzbuch page 459."

  Has anyone heard of this work, and more to the point,
  does anyone have one for sale?  We can postulate that
  this "Munzbuch" ["Coin Book"] was a standard (common?)
  reference in Europe that was published sometime before
  1880, and that it was a large volume containing illustrations
  (gleaned from the text).  If Page 459 dealt with Switzerland
  the book was big.  But, since the reference was to an
  independent coinage of Geneva (again from the reference)
  then this book was huge.

  I would appreciate any help that my fellow inmates of the
  E-Sylum may offer."

  Bob also posted his query to the COINS mailing list, and
  Andrew Sound located this listing in an online bookseller's
  inventory:

  "Description: FREY, Xaver & BLASER, C. Munzbuch,
  oder Abbildung der Kursirenden Geldforten; mit genauer
  Angabe: ihres Gehalts in Franzosischer alter und neuer,
  und in Deutscher Bezeichnungsweise...Nebst einer Ubersicht
  der wichtigsten Rechnungsmunzen. 823pp. , profusely
  illustrated with 965 double-sided coins, 4 large folding tables
  (scattered foxing throughout).  Thick 8vo, neatly rebound in
  plain black leatherette with no lettering. Bern: Harald Blom,
  1856. text in German and French. Very scarce work which
  compares the values of coinage of the world."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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