The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 2, January 12, 2003, Article 9

PARANUMISMATICA REVISITED

  In response to Paul Withers' mention of the term
  'paranumismatica,' Tom DeLorey writes:
  "I had never heard the term "paranumismatica" before, though
  I have not been  active in the field since editing the "TAMS
  Journal" for 1981, and I think I  prefer the shorter term
  "exonumia" coined by Russ Rulau and widely used in
  America. Which is more common in Europe?"

  [It seems like just yesterday, but it was two years ago
  when this term first came up in The E-Sylum.  See Volume 3,
  Number 54 (December 31, 2000).  Back issues are archived
  on our web site: http://www.coinbooks.org/.   I was unfamiliar
  with the term myself when I first encountered it on Paul Withers'
  web site.  Here's what I wrote, under the title,  "Vocabulary
  Word: Paranumismatica"

  "We discussed numismatic word definitions several issues ago.
   Mr. Withers' web site uses a word your American-bred Editor
   hadn't seen before:  paranumismatica.  In context: "World
   Paranumismatica  -  Tokens, Countermarks and the like from
   around the globe."

   A web search turned up 25 pages using the term, one defining
   it as the "British term for exonumia"  I'm sure Paul would prefer
   a definition along the lines of "Exonomia: American term for
   paranumismatica"

   A search today (January 6, 2003) turned up 84 references
   to "paranumismatica," more than triple the number found two
   years ago.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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