Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (1610-1688) Historia Byzantina duplici commentario illustrata: prior familias ac stemmata imperatorum Constantinopolianorum, cum eorundem Augustorum nomismatibus, ... Paris: Louis Billaine, 1680.
Du Cange ranks among the most significant scholars of Byzantine studies because of his pioneering research in Byzantine history, philology, genealogy, and numismatics. He was the first to publish a study that treated Byzantine coins independently.