The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 29, July 18, 2004, Article 25

ROYAL NUMISMATISTS

  Martin Purdy writes: "As the current President of the Royal
  Numismatic Society of New Zealand, I should have thought
  of this one, shouldn't I?  Apart from having the Governor-
  General as our patron, I don't think we have any current
  Royal connections, though.

  (I'm not aware of a Numismatic Society with Royal
  patronage in Australia, though someone may care to fill that
  gap in my knowledge.)"

  David F. Fanning of Fanning Books writes: "I was surprised
  you didn't have more responses to your quiz question: "who
  can list some of the famous royal numismatists of history?"  The
  one who springs to mind immediately is Vittorio Emmanuele
  (Victor Emmanuel) III, King of Italy, who wrote the 20-volume
  "Corpus Nummorum Italicorum: Primo Tentativo di un catalogo
  generale della monete mediovale e moderne, coniate in Italia o
  de Italiani in altri paesi."

  Others would include the Grand Duc Georgii Michailovich,
  who wrote an extensive catalogue of Russian coins, "Monnaies
  de l'Empire de Russie 1725-1894." Sotheby's sold a numismatic
  library belonging to "His Serene Highness the Prince of
  Furstenberg" in 1982. The Swedish Queen Lovisa Ulrika's
  library of numismatic literature is still preserved in the
  Vitterhetsakademiens Bibliotek / Library of the Royal
  Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. I'm sure there
  are more."

  [Victor Emmanuel was my top choice as well, and we've
  written before in The E-Sylum about Queen Lovisa Ulrika.
  Then there is King Farouk of Egypt.  Who else?  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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