The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 11, March 16, 2003, Article 3

INVENTORY OF UNIVERSITY NUMISMATICS

  Ray Flanigan writes: "We need your help!  Early last year
  John Wilson, President of the ANA and Arthur Fitts,
  Governor and Chairman of the Education Committee
  appointed a Subcommittee on Numismatics in College and
  Universities.  The primary goal was to have the American
  Numismatic Association (ANA) seen by post-secondary
  institutions and their faculties as a primary and credible
  source of knowledge and resource for use in the education
  of their students.

  The subcommittee was to identify/develop/recommend ways
  and means for the ANA to become preeminent in promoting,
  fostering, facilitating, and advancing the offering of courses in
  Numismatics leading to a broadening of our base of knowledge.
  The study of Numismatics itself is important, but equally
  important, is the study of numismatics as part of art, history,
  archeology, museology, or economics.

  The subcommittee decided to start by identifying numismatic
  holdings by U.S. colleges and universities and courses in
  numismatics currently being offered at the college level.  To
  date the subcommittee has identified approximately 2-dozen
  collections and more than 18 courses.  We know we have
  not identified them all and that E-Sylum readers probably
  know of some that we would like to contact and add to our
  database.

  Anyone knowing of a U.S. college or university with a coin
  collection or offering a course in numismatics can contact
  Ray Flanigan at JacquieandRayF@Netscape.Net
  Your help would be greatly appreciated.

  So far, we know of the following universities with numismatic
  collections:  Ashland, Bowdoin, CA-Berkeley, Colorado,
  Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Iowa, Michigan,
  Mississippi, North Carolina, Princeton, Washington,
  Wisconsin and Yale.

  Those colleges that currently/have offered courses in
  numismatics include: Bowdoin, CA - Berkeley, Lawrence,
  Mary Washington, Moravian, Pepperdine, Tulane, Colorado,
  Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia,
  Washington and Yale."

  [The ANA's request is timely, coming on the heels of
   E. Tomlinson Fort's recent article in our print journal, The
   Asylum.  "De Historia et Numismatica" (Winter 2003,
   p36-40).  Tom's article points out some of the reasons
   why there isn't already more interest in numismatics among
   historians and other scholars, and recommends some
   possible actions to remedy the situation.  The ANA's
   outreach program is another step in the right direction.

   For my part, I would like very much to gain additional
   E-Sylum subscribers among the halls of academia.
   Their expertise could be quite valuable in settling open
   questions and helping to steer numismatic researchers
   toward new sources of information.  Likewise, readers
   from other fields could come to learn a lot about our
   specialty.  If you know any such potential subscribers,
   please invite them to join in.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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