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Article #1: Numismatics overview

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Numismatics is the scientific study of collected Greek coins. Other collectors
currency and its history in all its of coins are Pontif Boniface VIII,
varied forms. While numismatists are Italian poet Petrarch, Emperor Maximilian
often characterized as students or of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of
collectors of coins, the discipline also France, Ferdinand I, Elector Joachim II
includes a much larger study of payment of Brandenburg who started the Berlin
media used to resolve debts and the coin cabinet and Henry IV of France to
exchange of goods. Lacking a structured name a few.
monetary system, people in the past as The 19th century was the most productive
well as some today lived in a barter in building up national collections and
society and used locally found items of in publishing catalogues. Theodor Mommsen
inherent or implied value. Early money fostered the idea of a general corpus of
used by primitive people is referred to all Greek coins from all collections. An
as "Odd and Curious," but the use of idea which is still not possible to be
other goods in barter exchange is realized.
excluded, even where used as a In 1931 the British Academy promoted the
circulating currency (e.g., prison idea of the sylloge, systematic
cigarettes). The Kyrgyz people used publications of single collections,
horses as the principal currency unit and according to mints and each coin
gave small change in lambskins.[1] The illustrated. Some hundred volumes
lambskins may be suitable for numismatic appeared until today. The idea was taken
study, but the horse is not. Many objects over by scholars of medieval Britain and
have been used for centuries, such as in 1993 in the field of Islamic
conch shells, precious metals and gems. numismatics.
Today, most transactions take place by a In the 20th century as well the coins
form of payment with either inherent, were more and more seen as archaeological
standardized or credit value. Numismatic object. After World War II in Germany a
value may be used to refer to the value project "Fundmünzen der Antike (Coin
in excess of the monetary value conferred finds of the Classical Period)" were
by law. This is also known as the launched, to register every coin found
"collector's value." within Germany. This idea found
Economic and historical studies of successors in many countries.
money's use and development are separate Modern Numismatics
to the numismatists' study of money's In modern numismatics are the study of
physical embodiment (although the fields the coins of the mid 17th to the 21st
are related; economic theories of money's century, the period of machine struck
origin depend upon numismatics, for coins. Their study serve more the need of
example). collectors than historical studies and it
Coin collecting has existed since ancient is quite often successfully pursued by
times, it is known that Roman Emperors amateur scholars than by professional
were among some of the earliest coin scholars. The focus of modern numismatics
collectors. It is called the "Hobby of lies frequently in the research of
Kings" and rightfully so due to its most production and use of money in historical
esteemed founders. Numismatics reached contexts using mint or other records in
its apex due to the great demand during order to determine the relative rarity of
the late Middle Ages and the early the coins they study. Varieties,
Renaissance. In this period ancient coins mint-made errors, the results of
were collected a great deal by European progressive die wear, mintage figures and
royalty and nobility. It is known that even the socio-political context of coin
Roman Emperors Augustus and Julius mintings are also matters of interest.






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