The systematic collection and study of coins, tokens, paper money, and other things with a comparable form and function is known as coin collecting or numismatics. One of the world’s oldest pastimes is coin collecting. With the exception of China and Japan, paper money has only recently (since the 18th century) become widely used. As a result, while paper money and other types of notes are collectible, their history is different from that of collecting coins and is mostly modern in nature. Around the fourteenth century, coin collection and admiration became popular. It became popular among some members of the wealthy classes during the Renaissance, particularly monarchs and queens. The first and most well-known enthusiast of the a