Meanings
- rareuncountableThe study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
Export of numismatics, philately, bonistics and faleristics
2006, Basic Instruments and Selected Documents, volume 6, World Trade Organization, →OCLC, page 3013 more examples
A number of particular theories were formed, which were dedicated to different types of nonliterary (and sometimes nonwritten) documents: diplomatics, numismatics, sphragistics, emblematics, heraldry, paleography, and bonistics.
2009 April, A.V. Sokolov, “The epistemology of documents (A methodological essay)”, in Automatic documentation and mathematical linguistics, volume 43, number 2They include: 1. The Certificate and attached documents: 1.1 a list of cultural properties being exported; 1.2 a photograph with size 13x18 cm (except for numismatic items, bonistics, philately and faleristics which do not require the photos) accomplished according to the requirements, specified in paragraphs 2.1, 3.4, 3.5 ...
2016, Ramil Imanov, “Methods and Issues of Cultural Property Smuggling Combat on the Railway Transport”, in Customs Scientific Journal, volume 6, number 1This money, since the 1920s, is well-known by experts in bonistics.
2017, Petin Dmitriy, “Emission of Money Surrogates By Soviet Authorites in Kiakhta in Summer 1918”, in Tomsk State University Journal of History, number 47Synonyms: notaphily
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
Origin
- Russianбонистики
- Englishbonistics
Borrowed from Russian бонистики (bonistiki).
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