Word: numismatist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...
...scientific circles Victor Emmanuel III is known, not as the King of Italy, but as a great numismatist. He has just published Volume Six of his Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, a monumental study of Italian coins from the remote ages to the present day. Of this great work, Volumes 1-5 and 7-8 had already been published...