Edict du roy, sur le reglement des monnoyes.
A 1635 Paris edict from the French crown setting coinage rules, printed by S. Cramoisy for officials and merchants handling money. Its pages are engraved plates of coins from Parma, Venice, Spain and France, each shown face-on with lettering, crowned arms and mint marks around the rim. A designer could take the circular medallion layouts, the tight rim inscriptions and the heraldic shields as models for seals, badges or type set within rings.
