Cover of Jonathan Jarrett, Coins in Collections: Care and Use
It’s only 48 pages, it’s not peer-reviewed (though it’s been repeatedly gone over by local experts) and I won’t be putting it on my academic C. V. because I look enough like a numismatist already on paper; but, this now exists. I’ve held it, I’ve given copies to people and, since the Museum and the project of which this was part gave 650 copies away at the recent International Numismatic Congress, I’ll likely be giving more away yet; it’s extremely doubtful that any of the print run will be be charged for. Do you have curatorial responsibility for a coin collection, or want to work somewhere where you might? Speak up, you can have one; it’s a best-practice guide for such people and we are quite literally giving ‘em away. This will probably accumulate a large readership than anything else I ever write (elsewhere than here…).
As long as I’m taking credit I ought to give some too: Mark Blackburn is behind much more of the text than he wishes to acknowledge (ha!), Klaus Vondrovec in Vienna and Achille Felicetti in Florence both contributed a lot of material that I recycled, and the classy-looking design is entirely down to Ayshea Carter. You all rock. Now, back to medieval history…
8 September 2009 at 19:37
That is awesome! Congratulations!
I for one would’ve flaunted that on CVs, business cards, Facebook profiles, family gathering name tags, you name it (but I did spend one -but only one- semester just staring at a small subdivision of Hellenistic coins so maybe I’m biased as to the coolness of coming off as a numismatics).
8 September 2009 at 22:00
Thankyou! My problem is that I don’t want to be a numismatist… but if I ever have to really become a museum bod this will help a lot I hope.
The Hellenistic stuff is lovely to look at. If I were a collector I think I would collect Roman Imperial, because I understand it better, but the Hellenistic coins have genuine people staring off them whom you could imagine in the flesh.
16 October 2010 at 13:37
BTW, if you ever DO become a Roman Imperial collector, I believe I can recommend the work of my colleague Liv Yarrow.
18 October 2010 at 15:34
Gosh, I hadn’t heard of her. Is she going to write us a new Crawford? I know a man in Cambridge who wants to help, if so. Tell her I looked especially pleading as I asked…
18 October 2010 at 16:17
I’m doing that at this very moment.
10 September 2009 at 14:22
Congratulations!
10 September 2009 at 17:50
Thankyou!
8 October 2009 at 20:01
Jonathan
I picked up the book in Glasgow, read it cover to cover, loved it, learnt a lot from it. Is it available for the general public to buy?
Andrew
9 October 2009 at 10:26
Ah yes, your review on Moneta-L was forwarded to me, thankyou for the good word. Unfortunately I can’t yet answer your question, but when I can I will ensure that Moneta-L is given the answer too.
26 December 2009 at 22:58
How do curators and curator wannabees get your book? Will you by any chance be at NYINC?
28 December 2009 at 13:09
I shan’t, but mail me with a postal address and we will get a copy or copies to you. We’re still trying to work out more general availability, I’m afraid.
4 October 2010 at 19:50
[...] after some effort and quite a lot of failure to get onto the case, that booklet I wrote a couple of years ago about coin collections, Coins in Collections: care and use, about which people enquired here, is now purchaseable in the [...]
2 October 2011 at 20:36
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