Numismatic associations bring together groups of numismatists. They may be commercial, hobby or professional. Membership is sometimes by election.
The British Association of Numismatic Societies (BANS) maintains a list of affiliated societies.
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.
Jerome "Jerry" Hosmer Remick III was a Canadian numismatist, geologist and columnist for Canadian Coin News.
Praful Thakkar is an Indian collector of autographs, philately, First Day Covers (FDCs), coins, medals, tokens, badges, badge plates and other collectibles from India. He has written several books on his hobbies.
Augusto Carlos Teixeira de AragãoComA • CavC • CavA • CavTE was a Portuguese officer, doctor, numismatist, archaeologist and historian. As an officer of the Portuguese army, he retired with the rank of general. Teixeira de Aragão is considered one of the "fathers" of Portuguese numismatics.
Theodorus Marinus Roest was a Dutch numismatist and conservator of the numismatic collection of the Teylers Museum.
A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics/coins. Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coins in object-based research. Although use of the term numismatics was first recorded in English in 1799, people had been collecting and studying coins long before then all over the world.
Robert Anthony "Tony" Merson (1950–2016) was a British numismatist and philatelist, with a particular interest in the coins of medieval France.
Lyce Jankowski is a numismatist, specialising in East Asia, and an art historian, specialising in Chinese material culture.
David Michael Metcalf was a British academic and numismatist. He was the director of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum, a fellow of Wolfson College and Professor of Numismatics at the University of Oxford. He held the degrees of MA, DPhil and DLitt from Oxford.
Johan van Heesch is a Belgian numismatist specialising in the coinage and monetary history of the Roman empire. He is the Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Royal Library of Belgium, and teaches numismatics at the universities of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve.
The Jeton de vermeil is an award recognising scholarly achievement in numismatics. It is awarded by the Société française de numismatique annually to a foreign (non-French) numismatic scholar, and every three years to the outgoing president of the society. It was formerly known as the Médaille de vermeil. It is a widely recognised award for numismatics.
William E. Metcalf, FSA is an American numismatist, ancient historian, and former curator, who is an expert in the study of Roman coins. He is especially known for his pioneering work on Roman provincial coins and particularly the Roman cistophori of Asia Minor.
Maria Radnoti-Alföldi was a Hungarian-German archaeologist and numismatist specialising in the Roman period. She is known for her research into the analysis of the distribution of coin finds, Roman history, and the self-depiction of the Roman emperors.
The Italian Numismatic Society is an Italian cultural association for the study of numismatics and for the promotion and spread of studies "relating to coins, tesserae, coin weights, medals and seals". Based in Milan, its members have included the most notable Italian numismatics scholars and collectors such as Serafino Ricci, one the first academics to teach the subject. Philip Grierson, Carlo Maria Cipolla, Francesco Panvini Rosati, Laura Breglia, Maria Radnoti-Alföldi and Michael Crawford have all also been members. It publishes the 'Rivista italiana di numismatica e scienze affini', the oldest Italian review on numismatics, as well as the 'Collana di numismatica e scienze affini'.
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi is a classical numismatist and archaeologist. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, she studied classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, receiving her Magister in 1971. She completed her dissertation on Cypriot terracottas in 1976. She is an expert on the coinages of Greek Sicily and Hellenistic numismatics.
Ulla Westermark was a Swedish numismatist, who was a specialist in Ancient Greek coinage. She was Director of the Stockholm Coin Cabinet from 1979 to 1983 and was recognised with awards for her contributions to numismatics from the Royal Numismatic Society, the American Numismatic Society, the International Monetary History Society and the Swedish Numismatic Society.
Yordanka Nikoleva Youroukova was a Bulgarian archaeologist and numismatist, who was a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The Société française de numismatique is a French learned society working in the field of numismatics. It is a member of the International Numismatic Council.
