The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 42, October 19, 2003, Article 11

A BRAHMIN NUMMULARIIST

  Adrián González Salinas of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
  writes: "As always, I enjoy reading The E-Sylum every Monday
  by morning...it has very valuable information.  Please keep up
  the good work!

  I would like to share the following numismatic information that
  I read recently:   The source is Mason's Coin and Stamp
  Collectors' Magazine, Vol. I No. 11, February, 1868,  pages
  102-103:

  A BRAHMIN NUMMULARIIST
  A Brahma rooster was recently killed in Amesbury, Mass., and
  in its crop were found thirteen nickel cents and two two-cent
  pieces." - Philadelphia Ledger, Dec. 20. [1867]

  The above is, probably, the first instance on record of the
  numismatic fever attacking the lower animals; and, if it takes in
  the natural way, poultry will become the cheapest meat in the
  market, besides furnishing a new locality for collectors to delve
  for uncirculated coins.  Fortunately, gold coins are not "lying
  around loose," to be "gobbled up" by every foreign rooster
  that struts on American soil. As as faithful recorder of numismatic
  doings, we cannot but acknowledge the addition of the new
  collector to our ranks.

  Questions to the readers:
  a) Do you know if similar facts have been appeared in another
     publication?
  b) Has the term "nummulariist" ever been used elsewhere?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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