Numismatist Numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin "numismatis", genitive of "numisma"). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers and scholars who use coins in object-based research. Although the term numismatics was first coined in English in 1829, people had been collecting and studying coins long before this, all over the world. The first group chiefly derive pleasure from the simple ownership of monetary devices and studying these coins as private amateur scholars. In the classical field amateur collector studies have achieved quite remarkable progress in the field. Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a
Collect To achieve this expansion from one year's worth of Sunday collects to three years', modern prayer texts have been added. Collect The collect ( ) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. Collects appear in the liturgies of Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches, among others (in those of eastern Christianity the Greek term "[déesis] synapté" is often used instead of the Latin term "[oratio] collecta", both having the same meaning). The word comes from Latin "collēcta", the term used in Rome in the 5th century and the 10th, although in