UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 12, March 17, 2002, Article 11
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
Howard A. Daniel III writes: "I was recently in Jacksonville,
Florida, at the invitation of the Anthropology Department of
the University of North Florida. I had met the department
head in Jakarta, Indonesia, a couple of years ago at a mutual
friend's house. When he learned I had just given a talk to
the Numismatic Society of Jakarta, he asked me if I could
give a talk at his university and I accepted.When I learned there was going to be the ANA National
Money Show 2002 in Jacksonville, Florida, I corresponded
with the professor and we set up March 6 as my date to
speak, which was the day before the three-day show
started. Since the professor was interested in Indonesia, I
brought several pieces from that area of Southeast Asia,
but I also had one other large concentration of material
from the area of the Golden Triangle of Myanmar (Burma),
Lao (Laos) and Thailand (Siam). The latter pieces were
because a young man with Lao-Hmong parents sent me an
email and asked me to bring some pieces that his parents
and elders had told him and his wife had disappeared.
Then I added a few more pieces from other Southeast Asian
countries and the military and colonial powers of the region.The young man turned out to be an enlisted man in the U.S.
Coast Guard and was shortly going to its Officers Candidate
School. He was shocked to see so many Hmong pieces,
and I brought duplicates, which I gave to him (and his wife)
for himself and his parents. Tears were coming out of his eyes.
I asked him to send me another email to remind me to send
him addresses of numismatic and book dealers where he
and his family (and other Hmong) can buy authentic numismatic
pieces (there are many fakes!) and books about them. Not
only did I make a great young man very happy, but I think I
made a new numismatist too.The talk was in a lab and included Masters and PhD candidates
from the Anthropology, Archaeology and History Departments
during a one hour and twenty minutes lunch break. Some
brought their lunches and others ordered pizza from Papa
John's. I laid out all of my pieces on a large table and added
two of my books about Vietnamese numismatics, history,
banking and economics. There was about thirty minutes before
my talk when all of the attendees came up to my table at one
time or another, and I allowed them to handle the pieces, ask
questions, and for me to ask them about their interests.Many of the attendees were amazed to learn that numismatists
and numismatics were a rich source of information and pieces
very relevant to their studies and work. Some were nodding
their heads in agreement with some of what I was saying, but I
noticed too many of them with shocked looks on their faces
because they had missed us! This was a shock for me to
learn they did not know about our field, but I became very
happy make many more people aware of us.The purpose of this item is to request that NBS members to
offer themselves to other university and college departments.
I am sure we can bring many new people into using us and
our libraries, but also to encourage many of them to join us
in numismatics.A second purpose is that I learned that some of them are
working on the excavation of Fort Caroline, a former French
fort in the channel. If you have any information about that
fort, please contact me and I will give you the email of my
professor, so he can pass it on to the right people.A third purpose is to tell you that I very much enjoyed the
NBS meeting at the show. It is always good to find I am
not alone in my addiction to purchasing, reading and caring
for books.Please contact me at Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com
if you have any questions about the above."- 2002-03-17
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