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The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 12, March 17, 2002, Article 11 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA Howard A. Daniel III writes: "I was recently in Jacksonville, Florida, at the invitation of the Anthropology Department of the University of North Florida. I had met the department head in Jakarta, Indonesia, a couple of years ago at a mutual friend's house. When he learned I had just given a talk to the Numismatic Society of Jakarta, he asked me if I could give a talk at his university and I accepted. When I learned there was going to be the ANA National Money Show 2002 in Jacksonville, Florida, I corresponded with the professor and we set up March 6 as my date to speak, which was the day before the three-day show started. Since the professor was interested in Indonesia, I brought several pieces from that area of Southeast Asia, but I also had one other large concentration of material from the area of the Golden Triangle of Myanmar (Burma), Lao (Laos) and Thailand (Siam). The latter pieces were because a young man with Lao-Hmong parents sent me an email and asked me to bring some pieces that his parents and elders had told him and his wife had disappeared. Then I added a few more pieces from other Southeast Asian countries and the military and colonial powers of the region. The young man turned out to be an enlisted man in the U.S. Coast Guard and was shortly going to its Officers Candidate School. He was shocked to see so many Hmong pieces, and I brought duplicates, which I gave to him (and his wife) for himself and his parents. Tears were coming out of his eyes. I asked him to send me another email to remind me to send him addresses of numismatic and book dealers where he and his family (and other Hmong) can buy authentic numismatic pieces (there are many fakes!) and books about them. Not only did I make a great young man very happy, but I think I made a new numismatist too. The talk was in a lab and included Masters and PhD candidates from the Anthropology, Archaeology and History Departments during a one hour and twenty minutes lunch break. Some brought their lunches and others ordered pizza from Papa John's. I laid out all of my pieces on a large table and added two of my books about Vietnamese numismatics, history, banking and economics. There was about thirty minutes before my talk when all of the attendees came up to my table at one time or another, and I allowed them to handle the pieces, ask questions, and for me to ask them about their interests. Many of the attendees were amazed to learn that numismatists and numismatics were a rich source of information and pieces very relevant to their studies and work. Some were nodding their heads in agreement with some of what I was saying, but I noticed too many of them with shocked looks on their faces because they had missed us! This was a shock for me to learn they did not know about our field, but I became very happy make many more people aware of us. The purpose of this item is to request that NBS members to offer themselves to other university and college departments. I am sure we can bring many new people into using us and our libraries, but also to encourage many of them to join us in numismatics. A second purpose is that I learned that some of them are working on the excavation of Fort Caroline, a former French fort in the channel. If you have any information about that fort, please contact me and I will give you the email of my professor, so he can pass it on to the right people. A third purpose is to tell you that I very much enjoyed the NBS meeting at the show. It is always good to find I am not alone in my addiction to purchasing, reading and caring for books. Please contact me at Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com if you have any questions about the above." Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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