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bonistics

bonistics noun: the study and collecting of paper money and banknotes.

Noun

bonistics (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
    • Export of numismatics, philately, bonistics and faleristics2006, Basic Instruments and Selected Documents, volume 6, World Trade Organization, →OCLC, page 301
    • A number of particular theories were formed, which were dedicated to different types of nonliterary (and sometimes nonwritten) documents: diplomatics, numismatics, sphragistics, emblematics, heraldry, paleography, and bonistics.2009 April, A.V. Sokolov, “The epistemology of documents (A methodological essay)”, in Automatic documentation and mathematical linguistics, volume 43, number 2
    Synonyms:
    notaphily

Synonyms of bonistics

Origin of bonistics

Borrowed from Russian бонистики (bonistiki).

Questions about bonistics

What does bonistics mean?
Bonistics means the study and collecting of paper money and banknotes.
What part of speech is bonistics?
Bonistics is a noun.

Words near bonistics in the dictionary

  1. boninitic
  2. Bonins
  3. bonism
  4. bonisms
  5. bonist
  6. bonistics
  7. bonists
  8. Bonita
  9. Bonita Springs
  10. bonitarian
  11. bonitary

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