Numismatics Definition

no͝omĭz-mătĭks, -mĭs-, nyo͝o-
noun
The study or collection of coins, medals, tokens, paper money, etc.
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Origin of Numismatics

  • From French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin"), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nomisma, “current coin, custom"), from νομίζω (nomizō, “I hold or own as a custom, usage, I use customarily, practise, I am used to"), from νόμος (nomos, “usage, custom"), from νέμω (nemō, “I keep, hold, watch").

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Numismatics Sentence Examples

  • For the coinage see NUMISMATICS.

  • For Cypriote coins see also Numismatics.

  • He was appointed permanent secretary of the Rumanian Academy, and became a recognized authority on Rumanian numismatics.

  • For the literature dealing with the Parthian Empire and numismatics, see PARTHIA, under which heading will be found a complete list of the kings, so far as we are able to reconstitute them.

  • The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that, drawing the materials from contemporary memoirs rather than from inscriptions, he relies on literary gossip rather than on numismatics and epigraphy.

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