.if/lf." ^....., 



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Fig. 4, — South Hall in Tin; Miseom of the LInitcd States Patent Office. (From United Stales 



Magazine, 1856). 



hibits may lie Rlcnned from Professor S. I". Baird in 

 h's S.;cretary's report in the Smithsonian's Atiinial 

 Report for 1886: "It is intcncled to arrange a series 

 of the coins in countries, showing with them also 

 paper currency and postage stamps, gi\'ing, as far as 

 possil)le, the history of each coinage." ''^ This casual 

 comment again demonstrates CJoode's enlightened 

 direction and independent mind. ()nl\ in its most 



p, iu. 



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 I'.XPER 31 : HISTORY OF THE N.\TIONAL NUMISMATIC COLLECTIONS 



recent exhibits, houe\cr, has the National Museum 

 succeeded in breaking away from the traditional 

 metalistic approach in nuinisinatics. 



Fossiliiy it was because of Goode's concern with 

 numismatics and his understanding ol the peculiar 

 character of the science that in the beginning numis- 

 matics was considered as a se]iarate entit\ . Tlie 

 National Museum's Re/ioti for IfUid lists '"coins and 

 medals" as a separate group .imomiting to 1,05.5 



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