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 of the Communion service, such as "Common Worship" used in the Church of England or the 1979 "Book of Common Prayer" used in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the "Collect of the Day" follows the "Gloria" and precedes readings from the Bible. Similarly, Lutheran liturgies typically retain traditional collects for each Sunday of the liturgical year. In the newly released "Evangelical Lutheran Worship", however, the set of prayers has been expanded to incorporate different Sunday collects for each year of the lectionary cycle, so that the prayers more closely coordinate with the lectionary scripture readings for the day.