A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers and scholars who use coins in object-based research. Although the term numismatics was first coined in English in 1829, people had been collecting and studying coins long before this, all over the world.
The first group chiefly derive pleasure from the simple ownership of monetary devices and studying these coins as private amateur scholars. In the classical field amateur collector studies have achieved quite remarkable progress in the field. Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, and King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics. Harry Bass by comparison was a noted collector who was also a numismatist.
The second group are the coin dealers. Often called professional numismatists, they authenticate or grade coins for commercial purposes. The buying and selling of coin collections by numismatists who are professional dealers advances the study of money, and expert numismatists are consulted by historians, museum curators, and archaeologists. See, for example, the International Association of Professional Numismatists (IAPN) and the British Numismatic Trade Association (BNTA).
The third category are scholar numismatists working in public collections, universities or as independent scholars acquiring knowledge about monetary devices, their systems, their economy and their historical context. Coins are especially relevant as a source in the pre-modern period.
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Training and recognition
There are very few academic institutions around the world that offer formal training in numismatics. Some may offer numismatics as part of a history or archaeology course. Scholar numismatists may focus on numismatics at postgraduate level, where the training is more research-based. As a result, most scholar numismatists will approach numismatics from within another academic discipline (eg history, archaeology, ancient or modern languages, metal sciences), perhaps after attending a numismatic summer school, usually based where there is an excellent coin collection (for example, at the British Museum, or American Numismatic Society). Recognition of scholarly numismatic expertise may be in the form of a postgraduate qualification, and/or in the form of a medal awarded by a numismatic society: for example, the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society, which may be awarded to scholar numismatists of any nationality.
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Numismatic organisations (selection)
Organisations
- International Numismatic Council organises the International Numismatic Congress, and publishes the Survey of Numismatic Research.
- Money and Medals Network (UK)
Numismatic Societies
- American Numismatic Society
- Royal Numismatic Society (UK)
- Berlin Numismatic Society
- British Art Medal Society
- British Association of Numismatic Societies
- British Numismatic Society
- Oriental Numismatic Society
- http://www.numisbel.be/welkomgb.htm
- International Bank Note Society
Biographical resources
As scholar numismatists work on coins (and related objects) within their particular area of interest (eg a particular part of the world, a particular period of history, or a particular culture), they are often better known in those fields. However, there are biographical dictionaries and resources relating to numismatists, although they are not well-known outside the numismatic world. They include the following:
- Manville, H.E., Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Numismatics, Encyclopaedia of British Numismatics. Volume IV (London, 2009)
- Smith, Pete:, American Numismatic Biographies (1992).
- "Numismatic Who's Who", in Coins Weekly.
- de Callatai, F., Portraits of Famous Numismatists who died before 1800
- de Callatai, F., Portraits of Famous Numismatists who died after 1800
- "Famous Numismatists - Les grands numismates", on the International Numismatic Council webpage
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatic Biographies - focus on American numismatists
- Numismatics - Biographical Information, on The E-Sylum
List of scholar numismatists
See also Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society and International Numismatic Council.
- Richard Abdy
- Mikhail Abramzon
- Carmen Alfaro Asins (1952-2005)
- Andreas Alföldi (1895-1981)
- Martin Allen (numismatist)
- Michael Alram
- Michel Amandry
- Ermanno A Arslan
- Philip Attwood
- Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão
- Marion Archibald (1935-2016)
- Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
- Simone Assemani (1752-1820)
- Ernest Babelon (1854-1924)
- Churchill Babington
- Anselmo Banduri
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Garde du Cabinet du roi (1754-1795)
- Pierre Bastien (1912-2010)
- Georges Bataille
- Khadijeh (Zohrer) Baseri
- Peter Berghaus (1919-2012)
- Mark Blackburn (1953-2011)
- Osmund Bopearachchi
- Bartolomeo Borghesi
- Howard Franklin Bowker
- Robert Bracey
- Guido Bruck
- Guillaume Budé
- Andrew Burnett
- Aleksander Bursche
- Herbert A. Cahn (1915-2002)
- Mando Caramessini-Oeconomides (1927-2015)
- Dario Calomino
- Ian Carradice
- Francesco Carelli
- Robert Carson (1918-2006)
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli (1727-1792)
- Celestino Cavedoni
- Secondina Lorenza Cesano (1879-1973)
- Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001)
- Joan Clarke
- Henry Cohen
- Barrie Cook
- Esprit-Marie Cousinéry (1747-1833).
- Joe Cribb
- Sylvester Sage Crosby (1831-1914)
- Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
- Hermann Dannenberg (1824-1905)
- François de Callatay
- Georges Depeyrot
- Amelia Dowler
- Théophile Marion Dumersan
- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel (1737-1798)
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
- Elizabeth Errington
- Giuseppe Fiorelli
- Martin Folkes
- Julius Friedländer
- Nina Andreevna Frolova (1936-2015)
- Andrea Fulvio
- Raffaele Garrucci
- Girish Chandra
- Francesco Gnecchi
- Michael Grant (1914-2004)
- Philip Grierson (1910-2006)
- Claude Gros de Boze
- P.L. Gupta (Parmeshwari Lal Gupta) (1914-2001)
- Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729)
- Barclay Vincent Head (1844-1914)
- Stefan Heidemann
- David Hendin
- George Hill (1867-1948)
- Thomas Hockenhull
- Chris Howgego
- Octavian Iliescu (1919-2009)
- Lutz Ilisch
- Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer (1838-1920)
- Lyce Jankowski
- Kenneth Jenkins (1918-2005)
- Mark Jones (museum director)
- Hans-Jörg Kellner (1920-2015)
- John Kent (1928-2000)
- Ryszard Kiersnowski (1925-2006)
- Jean Lafaurie (1914-2008)
- Georges Le Rider (1928-2014)
- Nicholas Lowick
- George MacDonald (1862-1940)
- Brita Malmer (1925-2013)
- Joel L. Malter
- Harold Mattingly
- Andrew Meadows
- Tony Merson (1950-2016)
- Ya'akov Meshorer (1935-2004)
- Vincenco Mirabella (1570-1624)
- Theodor Mommsen
- T. Sam N. Moorhead
- Cecile Morrisson
- Eric P. Newman
- Carlo Ottavio, Count Castiglione
- Filippo Paruta (-1629)
- Adrian Popescu
- Vsevolod M. Potin (1918-2005)
- Constantin Preda (1925-2008)
- Martin Price (numismatist)
- Louis Robert
- Anne Strachan Robertson (1910-1997)
- Desiré-Raoul Rochette
- Joaquín Rubio y Muñoz
- Eduard Rüppell
- Antonio Salinas
- Gustave Schlumberger
- Edith Schönert-Geiss (1933-2012)
- Dietrich W.H. Schwarz (1913-2000)
- Jirí Sejbal (1929-2004)
- Charles Seltman
- Camillo Serafini
- Jules Silvestre (1841-1918)
- Adolf Soetbeer
- Dmitry Sontsov
- Frederic Soret
- Attilo Stazio (1923-2010)
- Johann Gustav Stickel
- Charles Surasky
- Francois Thierry (numismatist)
- Rudi Thomsen (1918-2004)
- Lucia Travaini
- Olaus Gerhard Tychsen
- Leandre Villaronga i Garriga (1919-2015)
- Helen Wang
- Gareth Williams
- Jörgen Zoega
- Alexander Nikolaevich Zograf
References
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