The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 40, October 3, 2004, Article 10

ANS BUILDING NAMES QUIZ CONTINUES

  Last week's quiz question regarding the numismatic
  luminaries whose names are chiseled in stone on the
  old American Numismatic Society building in New
  York is "a Polish historian and numismatist.  His works
  on Polish history ...  were published in twenty volumes.
  In addition, he wrote two  important works on numismatics:
  the two volume La Numismatique du mayen age (1835)
  and Etudes numismatiques (1840)."

  Ron Guth of coinfacts.com writes: "Thank God (or is it Gore?)
  for the Internet.  The answer to your name quiz is Joachim
  Lelewel.  Ten years ago I never could have found the answer
  to your quiz...today, all it takes is two minutes on Google!

  Here's a good bio of Lelewel:  Bio

  Keep up the good work!"

  On to the next name on the list for this week's quiz.  This person,
  a "Russian numismatist, is credited with the creation of the interest

  in oriental numismatics throughout Russia and is considered the
  founder of modern Islamic Science in Russia.  [He] wrote more
  that 143 publications and manuscripts .."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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