Théodore Edme Mionnet (1770–1842) was a French numismatist.

Biography

Mionnet was born in

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, where he studied in the Collège du Cardinal le Moine, and in the École de droit. After four years of legal practice and a short term in the army, from which he retired because of illness, he became assistant in 1800 in the numismatic cabinet in the Bibliothèque Nationale, and there began to catalogue the collections. He traveled in

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, made many valuable numismatic finds, and in 1830 was elected to the Academy of Inscriptions.

Works

* ''Description des médailles antiques, grecques et romaines'' (1806–30, in 17 vols.) * ''De la rareté et du prix des médailles romaines'' (1815; 3d ed. 1847)

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References

* This work in turn cites: ** Ch. A. Walkenaer, ''Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Mionnet'' (Paris, 1846) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mionnet, Theodore Edme 1770 births 1842 deaths French numismatists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Collectors from Paris