Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods.
The Fishpool Hoard of mediaeval coins, northern England, late 15th century AD. The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. [1]
Gold Rush Collection Bonhams September 2013 $1,035,000 1894 10c United States Daggett, Parker, World-Wide Heritage Auctions: January 2005 $1,020,000 1863 $20 PR-65+ United States Eliasberg Heritage Auctions May 2022 $1,012,000 1921 $20 United States Hesselgesser Goldberg September 2007 $1,006,250 1796 With Stars $2.50 United States Byron Reed
Museum of Money Ukraine: Ostroh: Museum of Money Ukraine: Dnipro: Museum of Ukrainian Coins 1100 Ukraine: Odesa: Odesa Archaeological Museum: 55,000 Ukraine: Feodosia: Feodosia Money Museum: 30,000 Uzbekistan: Bukhara: Bukhara State Museum, Unknown Collection Uzbekistan: Central Bank of Uzbekistan, Minor Collection 400+ coins Uzbekistan: Shahrisabz
Albert Pick (born 15 May 1922, Cologne – 22 November 2015, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German numismatist.An internationally acknowledged authority on the subject of paper money, Pick wrote the first modern catalog of banknotes in 1974, and is widely credited with establishing the modern face of banknote collecting.
Photos and descriptions of Confederate Currency in McCune Collection; Boston Athenæum: Paper Currency from the Confederate States of America, Digital Collection; Civil War Confederate Currency Collection from Georgia State University Archived January 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
Ephesus' great temple of Artemis has provided evidence for the earliest coins yet known from the ancient world. [nb 1] The first structures in the sanctuary, buried deep under the later temples, date back to the eighth century BCE, and from that time on precious objects were used in the cult or dedicated to the goddess by her worshippers.
Numismatics (ancient Greek: νομισματική, meaning "monetary") is the scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms. While numismatists are often characterized as studying coins , the discipline also includes the study of other types of money, such as banknotes , stock certificates, medals , medallions, and tokens ...