Numismatics

"The study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects."

"Specialists, known as numismatists."

"Numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins."

"The discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods."

"The use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency (e.g., cigarettes or instant noodles in prison)."

"The lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horses are not."

"Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals, cocoa beans, large stones, and gems."

"The Kyrgyz people used horses as the principal currency unit."

"The Kyrgyz people gave small change in lambskins."

"the horses are not [suitable for numismatic study]."

"The discipline [numismatics] also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment."

"The broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods."

"The use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency."

"The study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects."

"Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins."

"The discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods."

"The use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency."

"The lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horses are not."

"The earliest forms of money used by people are categorized by collectors as 'odd and curious'."

"Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals, cocoa beans, large stones, and gems."