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coin collecting: Quick Facts

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Prinsep's Ghat, Kolkata; the archway was erected in memory of James Prinsep.
James Prinsep
English antiquarian
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Joseph Hilarius Eckhel
Austrian numismatist
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Sir John Evans
British antiquarian and archaeologist
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Percy Gardner
British archaeologist
Reiske, engraving, 1770
Johann Jakob Reiske
German scholar