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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 5193989, member: 112&quot;]I think few are aware of just how far back books on coins actually go. For example, would it surprise you to learn that the earliest books on coins are almost as old as coins themselves, and they were all written and illustrated by hand ? Well it&#039;s true. It has been said that books on coins existed in the Library of Alexandria.</p><p><br /></p><p>To put things into a bit more modern perspective, I think everybody knows that the first printed book was the Gutenberg Bible in 1453. But I&#039;ll bet you didn&#039;t know that many of the earliest printed books to follow the Gutenberg Bible were books on coins. In less than 60 years after the invention of the printing press there was a veritable flood of printed books - about coins ! That&#039;s how important coins were even back then. The very first of these printed books was written and published in 1511, and I&#039;ll bet this will surprise many - it was written by a woman - Margarethe Peutinger, wife of the Humanist Conrad Peutinger. It was a book on the coins of the Roman Emperors. Copies of this book exist to this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - To me this not only illustrates the importance of the study of numismatics itself, but also the important part that women have played in the hobby, and for how long.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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