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Numismatics

Index Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. [1]

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  1. 74 relations: Adam Eckfeldt, American Numismatic Society, Ancient Greek coinage, Augustus, Banknote, Bond (finance), Brigham Young University, British Academy, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Cigarette, Coin, Coin collecting, Cowrie, Credit card, Currency, Debt, Elongated coin, Engraving, Exonumia, Fiat money, France, French language, Gemstone, Germany, Glossary of numismatics, Gold, Goods, Greek language, Guido Bruck, Guillaume Budé, Helen Wang, Henry IV of France, Horse, Instant noodles, Joachim II Hector, Kyrgyz people, Late Latin, Legal tender, List of numismatic collections, List of numismatic journals, List of numismatics awards, List of numismatists, Louis XIV, Lyce Jankowski, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Medal, Mint-made errors, Money, Notaphily, Notgeld, ... Expand index (24 more) »

Adam Eckfeldt

John Adam Eckfeldt (June 15, 1769 – February 6, 1852) was an American worker and official during the first years of the United States Mint.

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American Numismatic Society

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is a New York City-based organization dedicated to the study of coins, money, medals, tokens, and related objects.

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Ancient Greek coinage

The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Roman.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Banknote

A banknotealso called a bill (North American English), paper money, or simply a noteis a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank or other licensed authority, payable to the bearer on demand.

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Bond (finance)

In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer (debtor) owes the holder (creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well as interest (called the coupon) over a specified amount of time).

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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States.

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British Academy

The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV (Karel IV.; Karl IV.; Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378Karl IV. In: (1960): Geschichte in Gestalten (History in figures), vol. 2: F–K. 38, Frankfurt 1963, p. 294), also known as Charles of Luxembourg, born Wenceslaus, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378.

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Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

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Coin

A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

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Coin collecting

Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender.

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Cowrie

Cowrie or cowry is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.

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Credit card

A credit card is a payment card, usually issued by a bank, allowing its users to purchase goods or services or withdraw cash on credit.

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Currency

A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.

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Debt

Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money borrowed or otherwise withheld from another party, the creditor.

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Elongated coin

An elongated coin (also known as a pressed penny or smashed penny) is a coin that has been flattened or stretched, and embossed with a new design.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.

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Exonumia

Exonumia are numismatic items (such as tokens, medals, or scrip) other than coins and paper money.

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Fiat money

Fiat money is a type of currency that is not backed by a precious metal, such as gold or silver, or backed by any other tangible asset or commodity.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gemstone

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glossary of numismatics

This glossary of numismatics is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to numismatics and coin collecting, as well as sub-fields and related disciplines, with concise explanations for the beginner or professional.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Goods

In economics, goods are items that satisfy human wantsQuotation from Murray Milgate, 2008, "Goods and Commodities".

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Guido Bruck

Guido Bruck (11 November 1920, Vienna – 13 March 1966, Melk) was an Austrian Numismatist In 1948, he obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy.

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Guillaume Budé

Guillaume Budé (Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; January 26, 1467 – August 20, 1540) was a French scholar and humanist.

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Helen Wang

Helen Kay Wang (born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Instant noodles

Instant noodles, or instant ramen, is a type of food consisting of noodles sold in a precooked and dried block with flavoring powder and/or seasoning oil.

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Joachim II Hector

Joachim II (Joachim II Hector or Hektor; 13 January 1505 – 3 January 1571) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern.

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Kyrgyz people

The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; or) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia.

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Late Latin

Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.

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Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.

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List of numismatic collections

Many history and cultural museums have large numismatic collections (coins, money, and tokens).

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List of numismatic journals

This is a list of magazines and academic journals that focus on numismatics.

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List of numismatics awards

This list of numismatics awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for significant contributions to the field of numismatics.

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List of numismatists

A coin collector is different from a numismatist, which is someone who studies coins.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Lyce Jankowski

Lyce Jankowski (born 1982) is a numismatist, specialising in East Asia, and an art historian, specialising in Chinese material culture.

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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.

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Medal

A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides.

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Mint-made errors

Mint-made errors occur when coins are made incorrectly at the mint, including anything that happens to the coin up until the completion of the minting process.

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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.

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Notaphily

Notaphily is the study and collection of paper currency, and banknotes.

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Notgeld

Notgeld (German for 'emergency money' or 'necessity money') is money issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis.

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Numismatic associations

Numismatic associations bring together groups of numismatists.

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Numismatist

A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma).

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Payment

A payment is the tender of something of value, such as money or its equivalent, by one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for goods or services provided by them, or to fulfill a legal obligation or philanthropy desire.

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Petrarch

Francis Petrarch (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Francesco Petrarca), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.

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Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII (Bonifatius PP.; born Benedetto Caetani; – 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 until his death in 1303.

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Precious metal

Precious metals are rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical elements of high economic value.

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Rai stones

A rai stone (raay), or fei stone, is one of many large artifacts that were manufactured and treasured by the native inhabitants of the Yap islands in Micronesia.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Romanization of Greek

Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet.

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Royal Numismatic Society

The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics.

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Saturnalia

Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December.

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Scarcity

In economics, scarcity "refers to the basic fact of life that there exists only a finite amount of human and nonhuman resources which the best technical knowledge is capable of using to produce only limited maximum amounts of each economic good."Samuelson, P. Anthony., Samuelson, W. (1980).

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Scripophily

Scripophily is the study and collection of stock and bond certificates.

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Sheepskin

Sheepskin is the hide of a sheep, sometimes also called lambskin.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Southampton summer colony

The Village Improvement Association of Southampton (VIAS) was founded in 1881 with the goal of promoting and carrying out projects for the beautification and sanitation of the village of Southampton.

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Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike

Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike is a monograph series covering the analysis of ancient coin finds in an archaeological context.

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius (– after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

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Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (SNG) is a project to publish ancient Greek coinage, founded in Great Britain by the British Academy in 1930.

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Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles

The Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles (SCBI) is an ongoing project to publish all major museum collections and certain important private collections of British coins.

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Token coin

In numismatics, token coins or trade tokens are coin-like objects used instead of coins.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Wooden nickel

In the United States, a wooden nickel is a wooden token coin, usually issued by a merchant or bank as a promotion, sometimes redeemable for a specific item such as a drink.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics

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