The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 8, February 22, 2004, Article 20

FIRST COIN COLLECTOR?

  Dave Kellogg writes: "With reference to John Kleeburg's
  interest in the "first documented coin collector", Kleeberg
  writes: "Petrarch, in the fourteenth Century, is generally
  considered to have been the first coin collector in modern
  times."

  This makes one wonder who was the first collector in
  ancient times?  Somewhere I read that the emperor Augustus
  had a curiosity about coins from different places and kept
  examples to discuss and give to his guests."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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