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PRESS

For the press

We take interviews. What we can speak about is the history of money as seen from the trade in real specimens.

WHO SPEAKS

Who speaks

Mitsuru Hayama
Founder

Mitsuru Hayama

After a career in finance, he still works in asset management consulting and in buying and selling antique coins. He teaches how to handle money and physical assets from the standpoint of building assets, using them, protecting them and passing them on to the next generation. At NOMISMA he extends the methods of checking real objects and historical sources into learning that thinks about history and about life today. The operating company, Convoy Switch Inc., holds a secondhand goods dealer permit (Fukuoka Prefectural Public Safety Commission No. 901032010105). The founder buys and sells coins at this company. For that reason NOMISMA issues no authentication, valuation or price opinion on any individual coin. Nor does it recommend buying or selling any individual item. Historical prices and market institutions are treated as subjects of study.

Monetary history (ancient to modern)　/　How to examine specimens, and provenance　/　Comparison of currency systems
TOPICS

Subjects we can speak on

On the following we can speak with concrete examples.

  • The birth of coinage
  • Greek and Roman coinage
  • Medieval European debasement
  • The money of Edo Japan
  • Silver around the world
  • The invention of paper money
  • The history of inflation
  • Forgery and authentication
  • The gold standard, made and abandoned
  • Authentication and provenance
MATERIAL

Material we can supply

Where the source will be named, we can supply the following.

  • Images of coins (436 items), each with its photographer and licence.
  • Scene plates, supplied marked as imagined pictures drawn from historical records.
  • Figures about NOMISMA (68 courses, 19 country histories of money, 461 terms, 7 languages).
CONDITIONS

Conditions

Name the source
Please give the name NOMISMA and the URL.
Check before you run it
Let us check what is said about monetary history before publication.
Tell us afterwards
Please send the issue or the URL once it is out.
One purpose only
Please do not use the material for anything other than the purpose stated when you asked.
WHAT WE CANNOT DO

What we cannot do

Photographing specimens
We do not host photography of the coins themselves. Please use the images we supply.
Prices and forecasts
We cannot value individual coins, forecast the market, or advise on investment.
CONTACT

Enquiries

Please add the name of your publication to the subject line. The founder, Mitsuru Hayama, replies himself.

We are accepting enquiries at any time.　We will read your message and reply in turn.

Write to us

Please write with the subject line “NOMISMA — press enquiry”.
Enquiries: [email protected] (Mitsuru Hayama, founder)

If you would like to see the material

It is there to be used in your background reading. The first chapter is open to all.

See what you can learnSee the coin and banknote gallery