Is There Any Numismatic Schools?

The ANA does have a correspondence course with 7 modules where you get a Certificate of Numismatic Scholarship, plus they have their summer seminar where you can take in depth courses on many areas of coin collecting, but I don't think any of them have college accreditation.

oih82w8 When were you at CNA? I was there 84-86. Go Wolfhounds.

Joe Paonessa

well I found more about ANA. thanks for the info. and what do you think it would take to start a school specifically for numismatics. that would be like a collage. you would stay in a dorm like it was a collage campus.

I don't think it would ever be a college that would make it off the ground. One thing is you would never really have enough students to fill the school and another would be the funding an actual college needs to stay afloat, a strictly numismatic college like you mention would probably not fall under any type of funding help as it is a narrow field that if you are not going to be a professional grader would not have any benefit to the people attending. And to be honest there is only so many spaces available for people in this profession

If your trying to be a grader either start your own and build it from the ground up or impress the heck out of the big wigs there. Theyre expanding but theres still a limited number of spots and the people that fill them will be there for decades more than likely.

Its one of those jobs that sounds cool but you have to get lucky to get by being the right person and being lucky enough to have an opening.

Id be shocked if they didnt already have a list of who they would ask if an opening happened

No college or university credits given out BUT there is a great school for Numismatics. Your on it right now.
Now there is something for the moderators to look into. A CCF crdit program with even a diploma. If you watch TV you would see zillions, slight exageration, of all sorts of colleges advertised. So why not this one right here?

Sometimes Liberal Arts Colleges used to have programs that permit the student to design their own program for a degree with the approval of their advisers. That was how Donald Kagin and Jonathan Kern got their degrees (PhD and BA respectively) in Numismatics. They are the only two people I know of in the US with college degrees in Numismatics. There used to be a few universities in Europe that offered numismatic degrees but I don't know if any still do.

That's easy. Spend at least a decade working for a major dealer in positions of increasing responsibility, until they trust you to grade and make accurate offers to buy/sell raw coins whose value exceeds $10,000. In any category of US coinage. Or, establish and build your own company and grow it into that class of dealership. In essence, your best bet to become a professional grader is to become someone whose name is already known in numismatics first.

Or, move either to California of Florida, talk your way into a mailroom or administrative position, and spend the next decade-plus working your way up from the inside.