The Numismatourist
The Only Worldwide travel Guide to
Museums, Mints, and Other Places of Interest for the Numismatist

The Ultimate Coin Collector's Travel Guide

Here's why:

Howard Berlin writes:

This book was born from my "World Destinations" column thatappeared in WorldWide Coins about my travels to places that featurevarious fascinating exhibits about coins and currency. The columnhad won the Numismatic Literary Guild's "Best Column" award forworld commercial numismatic magazines for two consecutive years.To my knowledge, this is first book of its kind and combines threeof my favorite pastimes: numismatics, travel, and writing.

This is intended to be a worldwide travel guide for the numismatist,those whose hobby or profession is about coins and papermoney. Inside you will find its contents to be a reference catalog ofnumismatic collections of exhibits in museums, banks, mints, andlibraries around the world that are open to the general public. It isfor the numismatist who is traveling, either on vacation or business,and wishes to visit places of interest.

Following my retirement as a college educator, I have had boththe time and good fortune to travel. I have visited more than 50countries, averaging about 75,000 miles annually-as the extra-pageinserts and immigration stamps in my passport will verify. Some ofthese destinations, which had numismatic institutions of one kind oranother, were first chronicled in my semi-monthly column. Prior tothe column's debut, Wayne Homren, the editor of the NumismaticBibliomania Society's electronic newsletter, The E-Sylum, dubbedme, the "Numismatourist." I'm quite sure that there are many othertravel writers that log more miles than I do, but I'm probably oneof a very few with this peculiar niche-writing solely about visitingnumismatic exhibits in museums, central banks, and mints.

Howard adds: