Here's one that may even cause our more advanced members to put their thinking caps on When was the first book on coins printed ? I will qualify my question by saying that when I say printed - I mean on a printing press - not written by hand.
You have me stumped. The printing press was invented in the 15th century and I would guess there was some numismatic literature relatively early on, but I could not find any references. If you limit the conversation to U.S. Numismatic literature the question might be a little simpler ;-)
My research is turning up the same book as the first book to be substantially dedicated to numismatics. Way to go jody526!
Thanks, cdcda. I hope GDJMSP will be along later and confirm that we are right. And please, Just call me Jody. (the numbers are my birthday LOL)
Sorry guys - there is one even earlier Now I'm not gonna say what - but there is a hint in this post Just about everybody knows the first book of any kind ever printed was the Gutenberg Bible in 1453. Kinda easy to see why that was the first. But it has always amazed me that considering all the things that a book could be printed about - that the first coin book was to be printed not too long after that By the way - the answer can be found on the internet
well the printing press was invented in 1436 by Johannes Gutenberg. i still havent been able to find a book dedicated to numismatics though. :-{. i will keep looking.
Nope - that's not it either pog. The book you mention, although much older than the one I have in mind, is like many others in that they were written in manuscript form - by hand. If no one submits the correct answer by tomorrow night - I will provide it at that time
This from: http://www.moneymuseum.com/standard...rste_muenzforsch/erste_muenzforsch_unten.html "In 1511, Margarethe Peutinger, wife of the Humanist Conrad Peutinger, sent a treatise on the images and titles of the Roman Emperors on the coins of their times to her brother Christopher Welser, asking him to arrange the publication of this work." Although I can't find whether or not it was actually published. And from the same site, here's a useful reference book on numismatics "In 1553, Guillaume Rouille published in Lyon his work "Promptuaire des médailles des plus renommées personnes qui ont ésté depuis le commencement du monde" (Collection of medals of the most famous persons who have ever lived since the beginning of the world). In fact, he attributed the coin portraits quite arbitrarily, claiming to find images of Adam, Noah and Agamemnon, for example. He had little interest in the real subjects."
