numismatist
A numismatist (from ancient Greek : νόμισμα nómisma "the lawful , the coin") is a person who deals with numismatics , in particular with coins .
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The numismatist's professional field of activity is almost exclusively the museum sector, where he looks after large public collections (e.g. Berlin , Vienna , Dresden , Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Gotha ), and also the university , where numismatics is taught. (Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, Münster, Tübingen and Vienna). In the coin trade, a numismatist is sometimes employed as the author of auction catalogs. In general and beyond that, all serious, scientifically working coin collectors can be called numismatists. The activities of the numismatists working for the various federal states are networked and coordinated in the Numismatic Commission of the federal states in the Federal Republic of Germany .
Numismatists are organized in Numismatic Societies, which mostly maintain their own publication organs, such as the Royal Numismatic Society in London , founded in 1836, and the Austrian Numismatic Society , founded in 1870. The oldest German Numismatic Society is the Berlin Numismatic Society, founded in 1843. The organizations of the collectors are the German Numismatic Society , founded in 1951, which is an umbrella organization of the coin associations, and the Society for International Monetary History, founded in 1965, which sees itself as a non-profit research society. The Numismatic Commission of the Laender in the Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1950, is the forum in which the Laender, within the framework of their cultural sovereignty, coordinate the scientific interests of the subject, which has a wide range of content.
