Antedating of "Numismatics"

[Fred Shapiro]

numismatics (OED3 1803)

1790  Ristell, Adolf Fredrik. Characters and anecdotes of the court of
Sweden II. 240 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  Mr. J. van
Engestroem, Knight of the Polar Star, one of the first rank among the
learned in Numismatics and Inscriptions.

Fred Shapiro


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