The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 39, September 26, 2004, Article 12

ANS BUILDING NAMES QUIZ CONTINUES

  Last week's quiz question regarding the numismatic
  luminaries whose names are chiseled in stone on the
  old American Numismatic Society building in New
  York is someone who "was a 19th century French
  numismatist.  He was probably most well-known for his
  study of Spanish coinage struck in the time of the Visigoths
  and during the rise of Christianity on the Iberian peninsula.
  He is also known for his volumes on Italian Renaissance
  medals."

  The still-very-much-alive John Burns was the first to
  respond, submitting the following one-word answer:
  "Heiss"    If I were a schoolteacher, I'd only give half
  credit.  Heiss who?

  NBS President Pete Smith writes: "This week's quiz
  was a challenge for me. I have one book on Renaissance
  medals and have studied the topic but not all related literature.
  I thought of people like Philip Grierson and George Miles
  but they are too modern.

  Last night I pulled my Clain-Stefanelli bibliography off the
  shelf and found the name of Aloeiss Heiss after about a
  ten minute search. He appears to meet your criteria but is
  not a household name in my household."

  The answer is indeed Aloeiss Heiss.

  Now for the next quiz.  The next name belongs to "a Polish
  historian and numismatist.  His works on Polish history ...
  were published in twenty volumes.  In addition, he wrote
  two  important works on numismatics: the two volume
  La Numismatique du mayen age (1835) and Etudes
  numismatiques (1840)."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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