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Are Stocks and Bonds considered Numismatic items?

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Depends on whom you ask. While Numismatics is defined along these lines - the study and collecting of coins, medals tokens, and paper money some may consider stocks and bonds outside the definition. However, if I recall "nummus" is Latin for money and checks, stocks and bonds are "monetary instruments." So I vote YES! They are in my numismatic collection.

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 41,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Technically, scripophily.

    On a more serious note, it's really the paper money issue. Between federal reserve notes, gold/silver certificates, etc., you've also got things like Treasury Warrants which come dangerously close to being "bearer bonds". So, is a "bearer bond" paper money but other bonds in a different category?

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, even when irrefutably accurate.

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    coinpro76coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭

    Exonumia or even ephemera depending
    I have some Bre-X stock to cash in, I should probably check the ticker on those see how I am doing.

    all around collector of many fine things

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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,486 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 14, 2017 9:15PM

    According to Wikipedia, collecting stocks and bond certificates are scripophily, a field of numismatics:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripophily

    Scripophily is the study and collection of stock and bond certificates. A specialized field of numismatics, scripophily is an area of collecting due to both the inherent beauty of some historical documents as well as the interesting historical context of each document. Some stock certificates are excellent examples of engraving. Occasionally, an old stock certificate will be found that still has value as a stock in a successor company.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The title is 'scripophily' and I even have a nice book (lots of good color photographs) somewhere on the subject. Maybe even two books. Books came out fifteen or twenty years ago.

    The field is pretty vast, and this means that you can't always tell what the buyers will embrace and what they will consider dross.

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    DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 15, 2020 2:41PM

    Today was a good day at the antique stores. I collect coal scrip and this was too good to pass up. It has No. 1 still in the book.

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    ScripoTimeScripoTime Posts: 4 ✭

    In case some of you are still interested in Scripophily :)

    https://scripotime.com/

    ScripoTime.com | Historical Stock Certificates & Bonds | Collector Community

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,513 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ScripoTime said:
    In case some of you are still interested in Scripophily :)

    https://scripotime.com/

    Instead of making multiple posts trying to send members to your site, how about you discuss the topic on this forum? ;)

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    sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 3,085 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, they are. They are exonumia, like medals, which are not money in any sense.

    If medals are numismatics, what about sculpture? How about small round metallic sculptures? If they are die struck or created one at a time by hand, does this make a difference? Sometimes these lines are hard to draw and we should be OK with that fact.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
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