The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 42, October 17, 2004, Article 15

ANS BUILDING NAMES QUIZ CONTINUES

  Pete Smith writes: "No report about names on the
  ANS building in this issue?"

  Actually, we had no responses to the previous
  week's quiz question regarding the numismatic
  luminaries whose names are chiseled in stone on the
  old American Numismatic Society building in New
  York.  You folks are slipping!  Surely, someone can
  tell us the name of this "Russian numismatist, [who] 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 than 143 publications and manuscripts .."

  Pete added: "I spent quite a bit of time trying to identify
  the Russian numismatist.  I checked the ANA on-line
  library catalog and the ANS on-line library catalog. I
  also looked through the Clain-Stefanelli bibliography. I
  found several names but none with the volume of items
  I expected.

  I understand that the Moscow Numismatic Society
  wanted to put the names of Aleksei Vasilevich Oreshnikov
  and Aleksyei Konstantinovich Markov on the front of their
  building but there wasn't enough room. Markov wrote
  about oriental and Islamic numismatics but had only five
  items listed in C-S. Based on my limited resources, he is
  my best guess."

  [Nice try, but wrong.  We'll wait another week to see if
  anyone can guess the name of the Russian numismatist,
  and with or without a correct answer, we'll publish the
  full list of names next week. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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