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- In medal: The Baroque period
…grand propaganda series of the Histoire métallique, a series of medals struck to commemorate Louis XIV’s reign, was envied and imitated throughout Europe, though the Dutch copied it in a manner calculated to ridicule the French. The technical excellence of the Paris Mint was also imitated. The first fully Baroque…
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