The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 44, November 3, 2002, Article 6

NUMISMATOGRAPHY

  In the past we've discussed a number of different words
  coined over the years to describe numismatics and
  numismatists.   One word I've seen only once is
  "numismatography".  It appears in the title of a scarce
  pamphlet by Edward V. Wallace: "A Numismatography
  of the Lincoln Head Cent".  The publication date is not
  listed, but seems likely to be after 1950 based on the text.
  The CONECA library catalog (on the ANA web site)
  puts the publication date at 1954-55, and describes it
  as a Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine offprint.

  An internet search uncovered this definition from the 1913
  Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
  "Numismatography  (Nu*mis`ma*tog"ra*phy) n. [L.
  numisma, -atis (Gr. ) + -graphy.] A treatise on, or description
  of, coins and medals."

  The search also uncovered this in The Catholic Encyclopedia:
  "... a distinction should be made between numismatography,
  which is chiefly descriptive, and numismatology, which views
  the coin from its artistic, economic and cultural side."
  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11152a.htm

  Curiously, the word also appears on a web site "dedicated to
  the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare", noting
  that "every occurrence of any of these words in any text should
  be considered one of Francis Bacon's signatures."  The list of
  716 words also included numismatics, numismatist,
  numismatists, numismatologist and numismatology.
  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bacauto.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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