Congratulations to Jean-Yves Kind, Winner of the 2025 IAPN Book Prize.

Jean-Yves Kind, the first prize winner, is an archivist and former special advisor on the Conservation of Treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  He has managed the French coin collection at the National Library of France since 2009.  His book catalogues an important part of the extraordinary collection of French royal gold coins found in his Institution. This comprehensive collection covered in two volumes includes gold coins issued from the reigns of Louis IX to Louis XVI, featuring many extremely rare and unique specimens.

KIND, Jean-Yves. Catalogue des Monnaies Royales Françaises. 1: Monnaiesd’or Louis IX à Louis XII; 2: Monnaies d’or François Ier à Louis XVI2 vols. Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Éditions V. Gadoury, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2024

ISBN 978-2-90660-256-4

Price: €95. Order at https://www.gadoury.com/en/books/catalogue-des-monnaies-royales-francaises-tome-i-et-ii.

Second prize went to CARBONE, Lucia. Local Coinages in a Roman World: Second Century BC First Century AD2 vols. American Numismatic Society, New York, 2024

ISBN 978-0-89722-419-2 and 978-0-89722-420-8

Price: US $325. Order at https://numismatics.org/store/rbw/.

Third prize went to VANHOUDT, Hugo, and SAUNDERS, John. The Gold Coinage of the Low Countries Hugo Vanhoudt, Heverlee, NL, 2024

ISBN 978-1-73565-981-7

Price: €100. Order from vanhoudt.hugo@gmail.com.