Robert Carson (numismatist) Robert Carson (numismatist) Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, FBA (7 April 1918 – 24 March 2006) was a British numismatist. Robert Carson was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy, He was awarded a first in classics at Glasgow Caledonian University where one of his teachers was Professor Anne S. Robertson, curator at the Hunterian Museum and a specialist in Roman coins. He served in the Royal Artillery in north-west Europe, rising to captain. He married in 1949 and had two children. In 1947, he joined the British Museum's department of coins and medals as an assistant keeper. This continued his engagement with classics,
Collect Pond Collect Pond The Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown, Lower Manhattan in New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main water supply for the growing city. The former pond became the site of a jail and is now a city park, Collect Pond Park, which includes a pond evocative of its former status. The pond occupied approximately and was as deep as . Fed by an underground spring, it was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at , the