The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 11, March 18, 2007, Article 20

ARTICLE PROFILES PRINCETON NUMISMATIC CURATOR ALAN STAHL

On March 15th the Daily Princetonian published a lengthy article 
on the Princeton University Library coin collection and its curator:

"Alan Stahl is the University's Curator of Numismatics whose job is 
to archive, research and showcase the library's remarkable collection 
of coins. Princeton, along with Harvard and Yale, are the top 
universities who hold numismatics collections, though none of them 
are "world class," Stahl said.

"'Our collection is probably the most comprehensive for [an American] 
university to hold,' Stahl said.

"'Harvard has Greek and Roman coins but not many others; Yale's is 
more comprehensive [than Harvard's] but not as much as ours.' Princeton 
is also the only school to have had a curator continuously since the 
1930s.

"The RBSC employs 12 students who each work to catalogue the coins. 
In the office where Stahl works, named the "Coin Room," they photograph, 
label and research the coins, loading the profiles into an online 
database.

"Stahl is a historian by academic training, though he didn't become 
interested in numismatics until he wrote the dissertation for his 
Ph.D in medieval history from the University of Pennsylvania.

"One of his students commutes three hours each way from Fordham 
University; another comes from Rutgers University. Neither of those 
schools have sizeable numismatics collections of their own."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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