| The late S.M. Shukla, an authority on numismatics from Mumbai, gave him a big part of his collection for a nominal payment. |
| The society, having a strength of around 380 members, has been organising seminars and workshops on numismatics. |
| He often lectured to outside bodies on his many artistic interests including numismatics, Coptic textiles, and archaeology. |
| Roman Jakobson's good friend, that arch-structuralist aristocrat Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy, famously said that phonetics is to phonology as numismatics is to economics. |
| The international conference, held every 6 years, represents the most important event in the framework of world numismatics. |
| The book contains a foreword by R. G. Doty, the curator of numismatics, Smithsonian Institution, that is followed by an informative introduction. |
