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Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.

While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods.

Early money used by people is referred to as "Odd and Curious", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency (e.g., cigarettes in prison).

The Kyrgyz people used horses as the principal currency unit and gave small change in lambskins; the lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horse is not.

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

A banknote (often known as a bill, paper money, or simply a note) is a type of negotiable instrument known as a promissory note, made by a bank, payable to the bearer on demand.

A coin is a small, flat, round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade.

They are most often issued by a government.

A currency (from, "in circulation", from) in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.

Under this definition, US dollars, British pounds, Australian dollars, and European euros are examples of currency.

These various currencies are recognized stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies.

Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.

Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender.

Coins of interest to collectors often include those that circulated for only a brief time, coins with mint errors and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces.

Coin collecting can be differentiated from numismatics, in that the latter is the systematic study of currency.

Though closely related, the two disciplines are not necessarily the same.

A numismatist may or may not be a coin collector, and vice versa.