c;i\c more than a sc-lcction. The sale catalos^s of the 

 period, such as those published l)y the Chapman firm 

 in Philadelphia, disclose many collectors who built 

 significant cabinets. In 1889 there were o\er four 

 hundred .Xmerican collections which were known in 

 Europe, as reported in Giiida nuniismatka universale '■"' 

 by Francesco and I-^rcole Gnccchi. Among the early 

 collections should be mentioned the coin cabinets of 

 Joseph J. Mickle\- '^" of Fhiladeljjhia and of Matthew 

 A. Stickney of Salem, Massachusetts. 



Of special interest are the donations made to cultural 

 institutions, colleges, and ])ublic libraries. Emmanuel 

 J. .'\ttinelli"s Aumisgrap/iies, or List (// Ciiliilooues (1876) 

 and a recent report (1960) from the International 

 .\umismatic C!ommission. include many such re- 

 cipients, among which arc historical societies in New 

 ■^'ork, PhiL'ulelphia. Long Island, Massachusetts, 

 Missouri, and Wisconsin, the Mercantile Library 

 .Association in St. Louis, the New ^'(Jrk State Library 

 in Albany, the Hartford Connecticut State Library, 

 the Omaha Public Library, as well as many uni\ersi- 

 ties and colleges. 



Through donations of entire, well-roinuled collec- 

 tions or single groups of coins, many colleges have 

 accumulated e.\cellent study material. Harvard's 

 more select ancient coins have been published bv 

 George Hanfman and Miriam .S. Balmuth in a very 

 attractive booklet entitled T/ie Fogg Art Museum 

 of Harvard University: Ancient Coins (1956). In Wash- 

 ington, Dmnbarton Oaks, under the trusteeship of 

 Harvard, has an outstanding collection of late Roman 

 and Byzantine coins and gold medallions, which were 

 published in 1958 by Prof. Alfred Bellinger.'"^ 

 Bryn Mawr College has a remarkable collection of 

 Greek coins which have been cataloged by Clornelius 

 Wrmeule and reported in his "Greek Coins in the 

 Elizabeth Washburn King Collection" (1956). The 

 Numismatist of 1927 in a brief note mentions the 

 collection of 10,000 coins which the Rev. W. H. Owen 

 gave to Yale. Earlier accounts of .such donations at 

 Yale can be found in Roman Family Coins in the Tale 

 College Collection (1860) by Fisk P. Brewer and es- 

 pecially in the Catalogue of the Cabinet of Coins in the 

 Yale Collection, published anonymously in 1863 and 

 reissued by Jonathan Edwards in 1880 as the Catalogue 



of the Creek and Roman Coins in the Xumismalic Collection 

 oj Tale College. The collection in \'ale's Sterling 

 Memorial Library is exceptionally well represented 

 in classical coins, iitcluding also many rarities in the 

 L'nited States series from the Francis P. Garvan col- 

 lection. Recently, .Margaret Thompson and .Alfred 

 Bellinsjcr published an account of a hoard of .Xlc.xander 

 drachms from the Yale collections.'^'' Dartmouth 

 C:olle<j;e has had two recent numismatic publications 

 on Roman and on Byzantine gold coins. '^^ Johns 

 Hopkins Lhiiversity (which received the famous 

 J. W. Garrett Collection), Princeton, Columbia, 

 N'assar, St. Louis, the University of Wisconsin, the 

 Oriental Institute of the L'niversity of Chicago, the 

 Berkeley branch of the University of California, 

 the University Museum in Philadelphia,''" all are 

 in possession of old and important collections. 



Often, universities sponsor numismatic studies in 

 connection with their publications in economics or as 

 a part of the reports on archeological expeditions. 

 .Since the late 19th century, Johns Hopkins L^niversity 

 has issued many interesting studies in economics — 

 some of which relate to the history of money and 

 prices — in two .series: .Studies in History and Political 

 Sciences, and Ancient Economic Studies. Many 

 reports on coin finds from archeological excavations 

 under the direction of colleges and universities have 

 been published by such authors as Edward T. Xewell 

 (for the excavation at Dura-Europos), David M. 

 Robinson (Olynthus), Margaret Thompson (Corinth 

 and .Athens), Dorothy H. Cox (Curium and Gordion), 

 and especially Prof. Alfred Bellinger (Corinth and 

 Dura-Europos, among many others). 



•American universities sometimes make use of numis- 

 matics — if only tangentialh — especially in the classical 

 area. In the L'nited States, the general subject is 

 not part of the resjular curriculum, but some institu- 

 tions of higher learning occasionallv offer lectures on 

 numismatic problems, as Columbia University did 

 in 1908, when Prof. T. Whittemorc presented a 

 course on coins as they are related to classical art. 

 .Since history professors sometimes are involved per- 

 sonally in numismatic research, coins and medals 



'"Second edition, pp. 419-454. 



"■ For a biography, see Du Bois, J. Mkkley: The Iriteresliii!; 

 Career of a Linguist, Antiquarian, and Musician (1878). 



'«» Sec Bp:i,unckr, "Roman and Byzantine Medallions in the 

 Dumbarton Oaks Collertion" (1958). 



■*» Thompso.n and Bellinofr, ".A Hoard of .Alexander 

 Drachms" (1955). 



'»" See Stk.^rns and H.M,i,, ByrjvUine Gold Coins from l/te 

 Dartmouth College Collection (1953); Terrace, Some Historical 

 Roman Coins . . . at Dartmouth College (1958). 



"" .Sec, for example, Milks, Fatimid Coins in the Collection of 

 the University Museum, Philadelphia (1951). 



64 



BULLETIN 229: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY .AND TECHNOLOGY 



