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Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods. The earliest forms of money used by people are categorised by collectors as "odd and curious", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency (e.g., cigarettes or instant noodles in prison). As an example, the Kyrgyz people used horses as the principal currency unit, and gave small change in lambskins; the lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horses are not. Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals, cocoa beans, large stones, and gems. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about numismatics 15
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King Alfred’s Coins. The Watlington Viking Hoard
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The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money
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The Coinage of Southern England, 796–865. Volume 1: Introduction, tables and plates
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The Coinage of Southern England, 796–865. Volume 2: Catalogue and indices
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Viking Coinage and Currency in the British Isles
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Ancient and Early Medieval Coins from Cornwall & Scilly
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Thrymsas, Sceattas and Stycas of Northumbria: an inventory of finds recorded, to 1997
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Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria, c. 700–867 in the Yorkshire Collections
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Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum. Volume 3
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Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 30
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Roman coinage in Britain
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Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 26
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Roman Republican Coinage
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English Coins
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Aphrodite auf griechischen Münzen: eine numismatische Materialsammlung
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