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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 7850416, member: 66"]Your wikipedia definition is acceptable. A collector is just that, they collect, a numismatist studies. We learn about the designs, why they came about, the history behind them, the economic, social, and political reasons for their existence and the times from which they were from, methods of manufacture, some chemistry, metallurgy, etc. We may specialize in a particular series or be wide ranging. How do you become a numismatist? You read, a lot, and about many things.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can be a collector without being a numismatist (I've known many that weren't, all they knew was what coins they still needed and possibly what they would cost and basically nothing else). You can be a numismatist without being a collector (most numismatists are also collectors, but not all of them). You can be a dealer without being either one, and I have known some dealers like that. They knew markets, were good salesmen, and could read slabs and the greysheet, but knew little about coins. But most dealers are to at least some extent collectors and/or numismatists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 7850416, member: 66"]Your wikipedia definition is acceptable. A collector is just that, they collect, a numismatist studies. We learn about the designs, why they came about, the history behind them, the economic, social, and political reasons for their existence and the times from which they were from, methods of manufacture, some chemistry, metallurgy, etc. We may specialize in a particular series or be wide ranging. How do you become a numismatist? You read, a lot, and about many things. You can be a collector without being a numismatist (I've known many that weren't, all they knew was what coins they still needed and possibly what they would cost and basically nothing else). You can be a numismatist without being a collector (most numismatists are also collectors, but not all of them). You can be a dealer without being either one, and I have known some dealers like that. They knew markets, were good salesmen, and could read slabs and the greysheet, but knew little about coins. But most dealers are to at least some extent collectors and/or numismatists.[/QUOTE]
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