Jean-Yves Kind was awarded IAPN’s annual book prize for 2025 during a reception at the French National Library, conducted on 19 September.  His two-volume book, entitled Catalogue des Monnaies Royales Françaises. 1: Monnaies d’or Louis IX à Louis XII; 2: Monnaies d’or François Ier à Louis XVI, is published by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in association with Éditions V. Gadoury, Monte Carlo.  The 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. The comprehensive collection covered in these two volumes include gold coins issued from the reigns of Louis IX to Louis XVI, featuring many extremely rare and unique specimens.

The IAPN Book Prize consists of a medal, a diploma and a monetary award of
CHF 1,000 (Swiss Francs).  The second and third place awards this year were as follows:  Second prize went to Lucia Carbone for  Local Coinages in a Roman World: Second Century BC First Century AD (American Numismatic Society, New York, 2024). Third prize went to Hugo Vanhoudt and John Saunders for The Gold Coinage of the Low Countries (Hugo Vanhoudt, Heverlee, NL, 2024). Ms. Carbone and Mr. Vanhoudt will be honored with diplomas recognizing their publications in the upcoming months. 

For more about the IAPN Annual Book Prize, see https://iapn-coins.org/book-prize.

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