ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS NATIONAL NUMISMATIC COLLECTION

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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 46, November 12, 2017, Article 10

ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS NATIONAL NUMISMATIC COLLECTION

The O Say Can You See? blog from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History often includes contributions from the staff of the National Numismatic Collection. On November 10, 2107, Hillery York, Jennifer Gloede, and Emily Pearce Seigerman published a nice general layman's overview of the collection. -Editor

Whenever we tell friends and family where we work, their first response is typically, "What is Numismatics?" Of course, they pronounce it anywhere from "numismatic" to "gnomimatic!" The National Numismatic Collection (NNC) is the Smithsonian's collection of monetary and transactional objects. It houses approximately 1.6 million objects spanning thousands of years and a great variety of materials. One of the best parts of our jobs is getting to share the collection with the world!

Numismatics is a far-reaching field, and we've found connections to military history, facial hair, woman suffrage, and even Game of Thrones! We often share things about our favorite objects, but here are a few large, notable collections that you may not know are housed within the NNC. We’re making these available online, and researchers are welcome to contact us regarding their research in these areas.

E-Sylum readers will readily agree with that assessment - there is no end to the interesting connections between numismatics and the rest of the world we live in. see their complete post online (and consider sharing it with your non-numismatic friends). Here are some of the items they illustrated. -Editor

Chinese knife money

1934 $100,000 note

To read the complete article, see:
Numismanic, Nomismatic, Numismatics? (http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/numismanic-numismatics)

Here's another NNC blog with more information on spade money. -Editor

To read the complete article, see:
Call a spade a spade (or a coin) (http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/call-spade-spade-or-coin)

Wayne Homren, Editor

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

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