The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 46, November 17, 2002, Article 9

NUMISMATISTE DEFINITION

  Martin Purdy writes: "my edition of the Petit Robert (1979)
  lists "numismate" with a first recorded usage in 1823, and
  does not record "numismatiste" at all.  Hatzefeld and
  Darmstetter (1926) still lists both, but refers "numismatiste"
  to the main entry under "numismate".  H&D states that
  "numismate" was formed by analogy with "diplomate", which
  Robert records as early as 1792."

  George Kolbe writes: "The terms "numismate" and
  "numismatiste" are extensively discussed in Ernest Babelon's
  introduction of the first volume of his famous "Traité" on
  ancient Greek coins. Kolbe & Spink are in the final phases of
  proofreading an English translation of this masterwork, which
  will become, we are convinced, indispensable to anyone
  seriously interested in numismatics and its literature."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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