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A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma).Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coins (and possibly, other currency) in object-based research. [1]
[1] [7] [9] The collection includes a complete set of three dollar gold coins, including the unique 1870-S specimen, a complete type set of U.S. gold coin designs from 1834 to 1933, and a collection of pattern coins from the United States Mint. In April 2022, the museum announced that the foundation was auctioning off the collection, with the ...
State/City Institution Numismatic collection Ref. Individual objects Coins Argentina: Buenos Aires: Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina Armenia: Yerevan: History Museum of Armenia Afghanistan: Kabul: Kabul Museum Australia: Sydney: Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies: 5,000 Australia: Sydney: Sir William Dixson numismatic ...
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On the other side of the coin, he fixed a drawing of one star. The importance of this event was not only the creation of the first coin of Texas, but also that the star symbol drawn in the currency is said to have served of inspiration to the symbol of modern State of Texas, the "Lone Star." De la Garza used a building located between the ...
Benjamin Maximillian Mehl (November 5, 1884 – September 28, 1957), usually known as B. Max Mehl, was an American dealer in coins, selling them for over half a century.. The most prominent dealer in the United States, through much of the first half of the 20th century, he is credited with helping to expand the appeal of coin collecting from a hobby for the wealthy to one enjoyed by m
In many fields, the ANS collections are the most comprehensive anywhere in the world. The collection includes early numismatic items from Ancient Greece [10] and the Roman Republic, [11] and also has a strong representation of coins of American, European, East Asian, South Asian, and Islamic origin. [12] These coinages range from 700 BCE to the ...
The Texas Centennial half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the U.S. Bureau of the Mint for collectors from 1934 to 1938. It features an eagle and the Lone Star of Texas on the obverse, while the reverse is a complex scene incorporating the winged goddess Victory, the Alamo Mission, and portraits of Texan founding fathers Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, together with the ...