what college(s) or university(s) offers a degree, or classes, in numismatics?

dorkkarl

hmmm?

K S

mheffner2

The College of NJ has offered courses on history of numismatics... (google'd it). Harvard did at one point as well.

BAJJERFAN

The school of hard knocks has the highest enrollment

CoinHusker

From a thread I posted earlier Advanced Numismatics at Southeast Community College

Greeniejr

I took a class in ancient coins at Washington University in St. Louis. It was pretty mediocre though because all we really did was help catalogue the Wulfing Collection which the university owned. This meant that I had to catalogue about 100 coins of Trajan Decius and family.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>The school of hard knocks has the highest enrollment >>

I've not earned my PhD there yet, but I've got a Masters from that institution.

Boom

ANA Membership followed by voracious reading, followed by taking ANA Correspondence Courses (the right way or you only cheat yourself in the end) on grading circulated and Uncirculated US Coins, followed by plenty of in hand practice.

Buy a copy of Photograde and then taking the ANA course on Detecting Altered and Counterfeit US Coins/ getting a bunch of time in looking at as many differently graded coins so as to familiarize yourself with each grade's "LooK"

and finally getting a mitt, getting in the Game and putting all your new-found learning to the real world Test .... school of Numismatics in real time/ aka School of Hard Knox.

Nothing better than learning under the Gun. Do ALL this and you'll be GLAD you did.

Good Luck.

ricko

Boom certainly has a good point. I believe some university(ies), as referenced in a thread years ago, will let you devise a post grad course, which, when approved, they will credit. That thread was a long time ago.. and I think it was mentioned that a well known numismatist did just such a thing. Memory fails right now.. will see if I can find it. Cheers, RickO

ricko

Here is one thread...I think there are more... Cheers, RickO

http://forums.collectors.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=4122&highlight_key=y&keyword1=education&keyword2=numismatics

coinlieutenant

I believe that Northwestern University offers a degree in Numismatics.

PerryHall

dorkkarl---Great question. Are you thinking about going back to school to finally learn something about coins?

WinPitcher

The only person that I ever heard of that had a BA in Numismatics was Jon K Kern.


Edited to add:..............Attracted back to the University of Kentucky by its Honors Program and topical major options, he graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Numismatics.


Steve

mrearlygold

Adelphia U in NY used to have one.

RichieURich

<< <i>The only person that I ever heard of that had a BA in Numismatics was Jon K Kern.


Edited to add:..............Attracted back to the University of Kentucky by its Honors Program and topical major options, he graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Numismatics. >>



Steve is correct on this one. Also, Donald Kagin states he has a Ph. D. in Numismatics. As I recall, both of these were programs that the student designed, but with university approval of course.

lkrarecoins

They should have a class called.......EBAY Deceit and Deception in Numismatics 101 - A modern approach

Boom

As well as one in Detecting Attempted Ebay Deceit and Deception.

boyhowdy

I took a graduate seminar in Roman and Greek coinage at UCLA.
The lady prof brought in her husband to show off his coins. Guy was tossing a $60,000
Roman gold coin across the table. Turns out he was Bruce McNall.

Steve