Working with us
There are three ways this school deals with people outside it. In every one of them the same discipline holds: every figure and proper name in the material carries its source.
Three desks
Every errand has a page to read and an address to write to. Each reply comes from the founder, Mitsuru Hayama, himself.
Material we may borrow
Please write with the subject line “NOMISMA SCHOLA — material enquiry”.
Press and reproduction
Please write with the subject line “NOMISMA SCHOLA — press enquiry”.
Enrolment for organisations
Please write with the subject line “NOMISMA SCHOLA — organisation enquiry”.
Enquiries: [email protected] (Mitsuru Hayama, founder)
The editorial discipline
Some things do not bend, whoever we are dealing with. The material is made for learning, never to promote the other party. That line is why material can be entrusted to us safely.
- Sources named
- Material you lend us is credited, at every place it appears, to its holder and photographer.
- Editorial independence
- The school decides how the history is read. A fact unfavourable to the other party is written if it is a fact.
- Real coins only
- Only photographs of real specimens.
- Popular claims
- What is unsettled is written as unsettled.
About this school itself
Mitsuru Hayama, who runs this school, is a working dealer in antique coins. Someone on the selling side is making the teaching material for monetary history — we say that first. Then we give numbers you can check.
- The 436 real coins come from 357 holders. Each piece carries its holder and licence.
- Of those, the number owned by this school or by its founder is 0.
- Links leaving this school go to sources (holders and licences) and to the public resources listed below.
We make one promise only: when an error comes to light, we correct it and leave the date. We promise nothing about intentions — a reader has no way to check those.
That we do not teach how to predict prices is written on the Academics page.
What we rely on today
These are the outside resources we use as the authority behind our material.
All 338 sources cited by the material are listed in the Source room. The three below are the institutions we use for identifying terms and for the photographs.
Nomisma.org
The scholarly authority for ancient numismatics. Used to identify terms, and linked from every term it covers.
Wikimedia Commons
The main source of our photographs of real coins. Every coin shown carries its photographer and licence.
American Numismatic Society
Primary literature in numismatics, cited as the authority behind the courses.
If you would rather see the material first
Before any enquiry, the surest thing is to see what the material is actually like. The first chapter is open to all.