The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 12, March 23, 2003, Article 7

UNIVERSITY NUMISMATICS

  George Fitzgerald and others quickly noted a glaring
  omission from the draft list of University numismatic
  collections published last week.

  David F. Fanning writes: "The University of Notre Dame has
  an important numismatic collection which I was surprised to
  not see mentioned on your list. Information on the collection
  can be found at the following Web site:

  

  Bob Leonard writes: "To this list should be added the University
  of Notre Dame.  Their collection of U.S. Colonial coins and
  currency and Washington tokens is largely on-line.   Dr. Alan
  Stahl taught a course on medieval numismatics there last summer.

  The ANA subcommittee would do well to contact the American
  Numismatic Society, as they provide postgraduate training in
  numismatics at a seminar every summer, and, as a member of
  the Council of Learned Societies, are already viewed by
  post-secondary institutions around the world as "as a primary
  and credible source of knowledge and resource" in this area.
  The ANS publishes an annual peer-reviewed journal (The
  American Journal of Numismatics), which is pretty much the
  opposite of the way the ANA is currently going with Numismatist,
  plus other scholarly works.  Frankly, I do not see how the ANA
  can expect to be taken seriously by academia interested in, say,
  the Aegean wine trade, with its current publication format (no
  bibliography or footnotes), which seems to be intended to
  attract buyers of proof sets, savers of state quarters, and junior
  coin collectors."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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