WThe first coin collector is said to have been Augustus. During the Renaissance, it became a fad among some members of the privileged classes, especially kings and queens.
WSargis Mubayeajian, better known by his pen name Atrpet, was a prolific and multifarious Armenian writer.
WElias Brenner was a Finnish born, Swedish artist, draftsman and antiquarian. He is especially known for his work as a portrait miniaturist and a numismatist.
WFeodor Grigorovich Chuchin (1883-1942) was an official in the Soviet government who was chairman of the campaign to eliminate illiteracy. He also was an author on numismatic and philatelic topics.
WVáclav Dobruský was a Czech archaeologist, epigrapher and numismatist who was mostly active in Bulgaria. The first director of the National Archaeological Museum of Bulgaria from 1893 to 1910, he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of archaeology in that country.
WBror Emil Hildebrand was a Swedish archaeologist, numismatist and museum director. From 1837 to 1879 he was Custodian of Ancient Monuments and Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. From 1847 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and from 1866 a member of the Swedish Academy. In 1866, he founded the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
WKutsuki Masatsuna , also known as Kutsuki Oki-no kami Minamoto-no Masatsuna, was a hereditary Japanese daimyō of Oki and Ōmi with holdings in Tanba and Fukuchiyama. His warrior clan was amongst the hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa family in the Edo period. His childhood name was Tomojiro (斧次郎).
WImmanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach was a German collegiate church councillor, canon in Naumburg, and Dean of the collegiate chapter in Wurzen. He is best remembered as a coin collector and patron of the arts.
WIvar Leimus is an Estonian historian and numismatist.
WThe following have served as presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society since its inception in 1836.1836–39 John Lee 1839–41 Edward Hawkins 1841–43 H. H. Wilson 1843–45 Lord Albert Conyngham 1845–47 H. H. Wilson 1847–49 William Debonaire Haggard 1849–51 Edward Hawkins 1851–55 The Lord Londesborough 1855–74 W. S. W. Vaux 1874–1908 Sir John Evans 1908–14 Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth 1914–19 Sir Arthur Evans 1919–30 Sir Charles Oman 1930–35 Percy H. Webb 1935–36 Sir George MacDonald 1936–37 Percy H. Webb 1937–42 Edward A. Sydenham 1942–48 Harold Mattingly 1948–53 C. Humphrey V. Sutherland 1953–56 Michael Grant 1956–61 Christopher E. Blunt 1961–66 Philip Grierson 1966–70 Derek Allen 1970–74 Colin M. Kraay 1974–79 R. A. G. Carson 1979–84 David Grenville Sellwood 1984–89 John P. C. Kent 1989–94 T. V. Buttrey 1994–99 Michael Metcalf 1999–2004 Harold B. Mattingly 2005–2009 Joe Cribb 2009–2013 Nicholas Mayhew 2013–2018 Andrew Burnett 2018–present Roger Bland
WPeter G. Loboda is a researcher of ancient history of the Northern Black Sea Region and antique numismatics. He is founder and director of the Odessa Numismatics Museum.
WAleksandras Mykolas Račkus was a Lithuanian physician and an active member of the Lithuanian American community known for his numismatic and other collection. In 1917, he co-founded the Lithuanian Society of Numismatics and History in Chicago. In 1935, his and the society's collections were acquired by Lithuania and are held by the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum. He then restarted a Lithuania-themed collection which was acquired by the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in 1965. A collection of various documents related to Lithuanian Americans and their organizations and societies is kept by the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
WIbrahim Salem is an architect, and banknote collector residing in Dubai. He built a collection of more than 150,000 notes over 40 years with a specialisation in the notes of the Middle East, particularly the monetary history of Iraq during the Hashemite dynasty (1921–1958). He has been awarded the Al Hussein Medal of Merit, first class. His banknote collection is being sold through a series of auctions by Spink and Son in London which began in 2013.
WAquilla Smith was a highly regarded medical doctor, numismatist and archaeologist. He represented the Irish College of Physicians on the General Medical Council for almost forty years, and was an authority on Irish numismatics.
WEzekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim was a Genevan diplomat and scholar.
WScott A. Travers is an American numismatist and author. Travers is considered to be a prominent consumer advocate for coin collectors, informing the public about common and potential scams.
WStefan or Stjepan Ilija Verković was a 19th-century Bosnian ethnographer and folklorist. Born to Bosnian Croat parents, he identified as South Slav and initially he supported the Serbian and later the Bulgarian national cause.