Have You Ever Visited Princeton's Numismatic Collection?
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"The Princeton University Numismatic Collection contains coins, medals and tokens, paper money, casts, exonumia - about 70,000 items in all. The collection is housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the Firestone Library on Princeton's campus.
Three new collections have recently been acquired: The Wu Collection of Chinese Coins , The Latin Orient Collection of Medieval Greek Coins, and The Armenian Heritage Collection.
The Platt and DeWald Numismatic Collections, formerly housed in the Princeton University Art Museum, have been transferred to Firestone Library for cataloguing with the other collections of the University. The Platt collection is rich in Roman aes grave and other Republican coins and in silver issues of Augustus and Hadrian, as well as portrait coins of the Renaissance, while the DeWald Collection has strong holdings of Roman sestertii, all areas that complement well the existing Firestone collections."
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/
Anyone here ever been to visit?
Three new collections have recently been acquired: The Wu Collection of Chinese Coins , The Latin Orient Collection of Medieval Greek Coins, and The Armenian Heritage Collection.
The Platt and DeWald Numismatic Collections, formerly housed in the Princeton University Art Museum, have been transferred to Firestone Library for cataloguing with the other collections of the University. The Platt collection is rich in Roman aes grave and other Republican coins and in silver issues of Augustus and Hadrian, as well as portrait coins of the Renaissance, while the DeWald Collection has strong holdings of Roman sestertii, all areas that complement well the existing Firestone collections."
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/
Anyone here ever been to visit?
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<< <i>"The Princeton University Numismatic Collection contains coins, medals and tokens, paper money, casts, exonumia - about 70,000 items in all. The collection is housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the Firestone Library on Princeton's campus.
Three new collections have recently been acquired: The Wu Collection of Chinese Coins , The Latin Orient Collection of Medieval Greek Coins, and The Armenian Heritage Collection.
The Platt and DeWald Numismatic Collections, formerly housed in the Princeton University Art Museum, have been transferred to Firestone Library for cataloguing with the other collections of the University. The Platt collection is rich in Roman aes grave and other Republican coins and in silver issues of Augustus and Hadrian, as well as portrait coins of the Renaissance, while the DeWald Collection has strong holdings of Roman sestertii, all areas that complement well the existing Firestone collections."
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/
Anyone here ever been to visit? >>
Yes, in the mid 1990s I examined a portion of the early U.S. coinage holdings.
I found the staff to be both pleasant and helpful.