What's the difference between epigraph and numismatic?

Epigraph


Definition:

  • (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
  • (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "But when you pull together all the evidence – archaeological, epigraphic and literary – it is overwhelming and, we believe, conclusive: they did kill their children, and on the evidence of the inscriptions, not just as an offering for future favours but fulfilling a promise that had already been made.
  • (2) In one of the epigraphs to the poem "Namely", a bristlingly humorous disquisition on his own unusual surname, he quotes Angus Calder, in Scotland on Sunday: "Few people thought Mick Imlah , who teaches at Oxford, was a 'Scottish poet'."
  • (3) One of the two epigraphs to my novel Boxer, Beetle , which contains a character based on a young Robert Moses, is a quotation from Jacobs: "We are all accustomed to believe that maps and reality are necessarily related, or that if they are not, we can make them so by altering reality."
  • (4) The Souls of Black Folk might appear to be a collection of essays (each chapter also has a musical epigraph derived from “10 master songs” from the Negro tradition) but it has a powerfully coherent inner structure.
  • (5) We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation.” Tizard’s wise words might be an epigraph – and an epitaph – for our story since then.
  • (6) His chapter, "The Sorrow Songs", expands on the significance of the bars of music from famous Negro spirituals which, alongside verses of English poetry - the two representing the Negro's divided inheritance - are threaded through as epigraphs to each chapter.
  • (7) In two books, Judd used lines from Camus as epigraphs: "If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it," and "Every wrong idea ends in bloodshed, but it's always the blood of others."

Numismatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Numismatical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Keith Heddle, managing director of Stanley Gibbons Investments, says: “Luxury and collectible coins are much more enjoyable to own than a share certificate or a unit in some fund.” Numismatics is the official term for coin collecting, and Lawrence Chard, director of Blackpool-based dealer Chards, recommends buying coins in the highest grades or best condition you can afford.
  • (2) The 300th anniversary of the birthday of Johann Heinrich Schulze gives rise to the remembrance of life and work of a polyhistorian who is riveted by particular attainments in medicine and several other special branches (orientalistics, graecistics, archaeology, numismatics).
  • (3) In addition to their highly skilled medical activities they were foremost experts in numismatics.
  • (4) They raised the standard of Czech numismatics and spread its fame abroad.

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