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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 13, March 29, 2020, Article 18

MORE ON EARLIEST USE OF THE WORD 'NUMISMATICS'

Some time ago Hadrien Rambach provided a response on the earliest use of the word "numismatics", but I didn't have a chance to edit it for publication until this week. Hadrien alerted us to an article on the topic that he'd written in French and published in Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie (vol. CLXIV (2018), pp. 524-529).

The title "Numismatographie et numismaticite, nummophiles et numismanes : note à propos de divers termes désuets " roughly translates to "Numismatography and numismaticitis, nummophiles and numismaniacs: Notes on Various Obsolete Terms". Here is a Google translation of the article summary. -Editor

Rambach article earliest use of the word numismatics "According to Thierry Sarmant (Sarmant 2000, p. 70, note 5), the use of the word "numismatics" would be attested as an adjective since 1579 (Le Pois 1579, p. 35 v.), Then the Dictionnaire de l’Académie recorded the substantive in 1803. The oldest occurrence of the substantive adjective that Sarmant has found is in the sentence "You oblige me to give me news about numismatics, being in a distant country where we hear nothing said", Found in a letter from Father Favart to the capitoul Du Vau (Bibl. Nat. De Fr., Manuscrits, fr. 15186, fol. 87, Reims, June 23, 1732).

In fact the first known occurrence of "numismatics" - in Greek - is even older, since it dates back to 1565, in Belgium (Lampson 1565, p. 30; Lampson 1949, p. 74: "It is therefore Lambert Lombard that the Belgians owe, in addition to these advances of which I spoke in the art of painting and of which he said himself partly indebted to these ancient currencies, this taste so estimable of numismatics (in Greek), word which does not seems to me not too badly suited to this kind of knowledge."

I thank François de Callataÿ for providing me with a pre-print version of his forthcoming study)."

Thank you! The Hobby of Kings has been around for quite some time, and will be for much much longer. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE FIRST KNOWN USE OF THE WORD 'NUMISMATICS'? (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n01a15.html)

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