The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 45, November 10, 2002, Article 4

NUMISMATISTE

  Hadrien Rambach of Paris, France writes: "About the
  different & interesting words used for numismatics, I can
  also suggest the French equivalents of "numismatist" (the
  collector or scholar, interested in numismatics).

  Nowadays, we French all use the word "numismate".
  But another word did exist (still used, at least, in 1902):
  "numismastiste".

  In a letter, T.M. Dumersan explained that "numismatiste"
  should be preferred to "numismate", because of the
  differences between "diplomate" (the ambassadors, etc.)
  and "diplomatiste" (the scholar in diplomatics).  But this
  argument is not good (I think), as diplomatics was created
  after numismatics, and after the word "numismate".
  Does someone know of an article or other research on
  this subject (numismate vs numismatiste)?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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