Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to currency, especially to coins.
The most prevalent use of the acronym for the phrase is not in texts — which allowed for expansive writing — but upon numismatic evidence (i.e. coinage) where space was limited and thus often had familiar abbreviations.
2018 August 30, Sarah E. Bond, “The Misuse of an Ancient Roman Acronym by White Nationalist Groups”, in Hyperallergic1 more example
After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28 - not comparableOf or pertaining to numismatics.
Numismatic associations had argued before a State Department advisory committee that import restrictions on ancient coins could not fairly be enforced.
2007 July 18, Jeremy Kahn, “U.S. Imposes Restrictions on Importing Cypriot Coins”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2020
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchnumismatique
- Frenchnumismatique
- Englishnumismatic
Borrowed from French numismatique.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan numismàtic, numismàtic
- numismàticof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
- numismàticof or pertaining to numismatics
Czech numismatický
- numismatickýof or pertaining to numismatics
Finnish numismaattinen, numismaattinen
- numismaattinenof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
- numismaattinenof or pertaining to numismatics
French numismatique
- numismatiqueof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
German numismatisch, numismatisch
- numismatischof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
- numismatischof or pertaining to numismatics
Greek νομισματικός, νομισματικός
- νομισματικός (nomismatikós)of or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
- νομισματικός (nomismatikós)of or pertaining to numismatics
Portuguese numismático
- numismáticoof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
Russian нумизмати́ческий
- нумизмати́ческий (numizmatíčeskij)of or pertaining to numismatics
Spanish numismático
- numismáticoof or pertaining to a coin, coins, currency
Cite this entry
numismatic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numismatic
“numismatic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numismatic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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