Numismatist work on coins (and related objects) within their particular area of interest (eg a particular part of the world, a particular period of history, or a particular culture), they are often known in those fields, as well as in numismatics. Biographical resources relating specifically to numismatists include the following: See also Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society and International Numismatic Council. 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
Collect for Purity Collect for Purity The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. It appears in Latin in the 11th-century Leofric missal and was part of the preparation prayers of priests before Mass. Thomas Cranmer translated the prayer into English and from there it has entered almost every Anglican prayer book in the world. In the Leofric missal and the later Sarum Rite, the original Latin prayer occurs as one of the prayers said before Mass: A version appears as the introduction to the 14th Century anonymous