NAMES ON THE OLD ANS BUILDING Pubblico Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 36, September 5, 2004, Article 18
NAMES ON THE OLD ANS BUILDING
We never had a satisfactory answer to our recent quiz
question about the names carved in stone on the old
American Numismatic Society building in New York.
Lo and behold, the complete answer comes to us in a
sidebar to an article on the old building by Joseph Ciccone
in the Summer 2004 (vol 3, no. 2) issue of American
Numismatic Society Magazine (p23).I won't still the beans all at once, but will use the list as
an opportunity for future quizzes. The first name is
someone who lived from 1737 to 1798, and "is
considered by many to be the founder of the science of
classical numismatics." His "major achievement is the
eight-volume Doctrina Nummorum Veterum..."
Who is he?- 2004-09-05
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