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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2426521, member: 19463&quot;]Some of those questions seriously suffer from the translation.&nbsp; Some are essay questions testing whether you are up on their current work in numismatics.&nbsp; For example:</p><p><i>1. Numismatics is a historical or archaeological source?</i></p><p>I assume this is an essay question to which I would answer &#039;both&#039; pointing out uses in each field.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>2. What is the coin ? How can serve to historians art, surveyors, archaeologists?</i></p><p>I see this as the same question looking for an essay pointing out the uses of coins to other fields which they take as more serious than the lousy coins themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>3. In what areas moves the numismatic research?</i></p><p>I believe they are asking for what directions they are taking in furthering numismatic studies. One answer I see is the move to putting collections online so the material in the British Museum, for example, can be used by other students without travelling.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>4. What is the Historia Numorum</i>?</p><p>I suspect they refer to the great book by Barclay Head of that name which any student of Greek coins should have read.&nbsp; It is now in Public Domain and available online but I have a hardbound copy that gets used with some regularity.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>5. You have a coin of Ancient Greece: how do you do schedarla?</i></p><p>I have no idea what that last word is.&nbsp; Are they asking what steps you might take to do an ID on a Greek coin otherwise unknown to you?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>6. What are the main features of a coin</i>.</p><p>I&#039;m assuming the question is looking for terms like legend, device, design etc.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure they have a set number of correct answers the student is supposed to have memorized.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>7. What is the RRCH?</i></p><p><i>8. What is the RRC? Who wrote that?</i></p><p><i>9. What is the IGCH cos?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>These are acronyms found in useful online resources some of us already use.&nbsp; For example </p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/crro/</a></p><p>is a great place to look at Roman Republican coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I assume the &#039;Who&#039; they seek is Crawford.&nbsp; I suspect the writers of the test have more interest in coin hoards (IGCH) than I do but it is fair to expect a student numismatist to have a clue as to what resources are currently available.&nbsp; If everything were covered online to the degree the Republicans and RIC V part 1 are, I&#039;d really be a happy camper but things are a lot better now than they were just a few years ago which just proves that those getting a PhD in Numismatics today will need to keep up or be as useless as I am by 2020.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the test goes, I don&#039;t see taking it as a great value unless you are able to comprehend both Italian and Numismatics of a museum style.&nbsp; Perhaps an English speaking coin person and an Italian bilingual non-coin person could make sense out of the thing by combining their separate abilities.&nbsp; I suppose there is merit in knowing the terminology for current fields of study but I tend to discount the fact that my doctor learned the names of every bone in my body and emphasize the fact he learned to fix the one I broke.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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