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- ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ↑ Nagler, Georg Kaspar (1849). Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, ... (in German). E.A. Fleischmann. p. 471.
- 1 2 Forrer, Leonard (1916). Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. 6 [T-Z]. pp. 204–206.
- ↑ "MDC Monnaies de Collection sarl - Auction 9 Lot 996". www.numisbids.com. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ↑ Catalogue de la collection de monnaies de feu Christian Jürgensen Thomsen: III,2 (in French). Thiele. 1871. p. 187.
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