Collecting vs Numismatics - What's the difference?
collecting | numismatics |
A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
* 2009 , Melissa A Hardy, ?Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis (page 568)
The study of coins (or of medals)
The collecting of coins (or of medals)
As nouns the difference between collecting and numismatics
is that collecting is a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector while numismatics is the study of coins (or of medals).As a verb collecting
is (collect).collecting
English
(wikipedia collecting)Noun
- The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.