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| | Part 1: 1836 - 1874::The Royal Numismatic Society |
 | | Numismatic scholarship as it relates to the coinage of our own country is outlined and discussed in the preface to the third edition of Ruding's Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies, published in 1840. |
 | | Numismatics, however, was only one of several aspects catered for by the Society of Antiquaries, and in the 1830s, numismatists began to feel, just as their colleagues in the natural sciences had felt a little earlier, that it was impracticable to obtain the requisite time and attention for their special interest in a mixed institution. |
 | | He was the author of a number of books on numismatics and many articles, and, more importantly, began in 1836, largely at his own expense, the periodical which eventually became the Numismatic Chronicle, one of the bases on which the repute of this Society as a learned body was established. |
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