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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 670508, member: 39&quot;]Rulers and their families have indeed collected coins since coins have been around. But here in Europe, coin collecting among non-royals <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> became popular at the time of the Renaissance - still limited to those who could afford it, of course. Francesco Petrarca who lived in the 14c was a well known coin collector, mostly due to his interest in ancient Roman history.</p><p><br /></p><p>When humanist Hubert Goltzius, one of the first &quot;scientific&quot; numismatists, traveled in Western Europe in the mid-16th century, he learned about almost 1,000 coin cabinets in that area, with 200 in the German countries alone. And in 1729 Johann D. Köhler published the first issue of his &quot;Münzbelustigungen&quot;, a weekly (!) coin journal. The last issue came out in 1750, five years before he died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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