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Numismatics

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, numismatics means: The study of coins and related monetary objects as evidence of their production, use and historical setting.

In Turkish: nümismatik, sikke bilimi

How it is used

Coins can inform political and economic questions; a ruler's portrait alone does not date a deposit exactly.

Example sentences

  1. Numismatics helped identify the mint responsible for the silver coins.

    Marks and designs can connect objects to production centres.

  2. The historian used numismatics to compare monetary circulation across ports.

    Coins serve as evidence of economic connections as well as rulers.

Common collocations

  • numismatic evidence
  • the study of numismatics
  • artifactAn object made or shaped by people, such as a tool, coin, weapon or piece of jewellery, especially one studied for what it reveals about the past.
  • trade routeA regular path by land, river or sea along which merchants carried goods between regions, such as the Silk Road or the spice routes of the Indian Ocean.

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