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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 966512, member: 19463&quot;]Petrarch?&nbsp; Bude?&nbsp; It all depends on where you draw the line.&nbsp; To me, the first real students of numismatics were probably employees of rich collectors who were tasked by their masters with arranging the master&#039;s coins.&nbsp; Some of their names are known.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend (highly) a little book <b>Numismatics an Ancient Science&nbsp; </b>by Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli,&nbsp; Bulletin 229, Paper 32, from Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Government Printing Office 1965 $1 (you will pay more and mine is not for sale).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007DO2LS/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&amp;redirect=true&amp;qid=1281119925&amp;sr=1-10&amp;condition=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007DO2LS/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&amp;redirect=true&amp;qid=1281119925&amp;sr=1-10&amp;condition=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007DO2LS/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&amp;redirect=true&amp;qid=1281119925&amp;sr=1-10&amp;condition=all</a></p><p><br /></p><p>$35 is too much buy $5.28 is cheap IMHO.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This question is like, &quot;Who discovered America?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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