Princeton University's darkside collection
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Ever wonder what the "backroom" looks like in an 80,000 coin collection? I stumbled on this pic of Princeton UNiversity's coin collection on yahoo today and found it to be interesting.
Standing in Princeton University's rare coins vault, Alan Stahl, curator of the school's numismatic collection, holds a box of Islamic coins Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 in Princeton, N.J., from Princeton's archaeological work in Antioch, in what is now Turkey, during the late 1930s. The 30,000 coins from the Antioch excavation make up a large part of the 80,000 items in the collection at Princeton.
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Standing in Princeton University's rare coins vault, Alan Stahl, curator of the school's numismatic collection, holds a box of Islamic coins Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 in Princeton, N.J., from Princeton's archaeological work in Antioch, in what is now Turkey, during the late 1930s. The 30,000 coins from the Antioch excavation make up a large part of the 80,000 items in the collection at Princeton.
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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<< <i>Somebody needs to buy them some 2x2s and airtites. Looks like everything's in envelopes and wooden/cardboard boxes! >>
Meh, I think they can buy their own. In fact, they should give this clown the boot, and hire me for $500k per year......I'd work real hard sorting and classifying those 80,000 coins.
"Rich colleges pressed to share wealth with students Congress looks at endowments Sunday, March 09, 2008 BY ANA M. ALAYA Star-Ledger Staff Princeton University, with a $15.8 billion endowment, larger than the gross domestic product of Bolivia, is among an elite list of super-wealthy schools under pressure to justify how they spend their enormous wealth. "