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Welcome to the American Numismatic Society

The American Numismatic Society is an organization dedicated to the study of coins, currency, medals, tokens, and related objects from all cultures, past and present. The Society's headquarters in New York City has the foremost research collection and library specialized in numismatics in the United States. These resources are used to support research and education in numismatics, for the benefit of academic specialists, serious collectors, professional numismatists, and the interested public.

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News and Events

March 2024 eNews
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March 2024 eNews

Gilles Bransbourg to step down as Executive Director, the RBW catalog is now at the printer, Ruth Pliego is announced as 2023 Huntington winner, and more!

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ANS Announces 2023 Huntington Award to Ruth Pliego
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ANS Announces 2023 Huntington Award to Ruth Pliego

PRESS RELEASE | The ANS has named Dr. Ruth Pliego as the recipient of the 2023 Archer M. Huntington Award. The award will be presented on June 13, 2024, followed by the Silvia Mani Hurter Memorial Lecture by the honoree: “Archer M. Huntington and the Visigothic Coins: Revisiting the La Capilla Hoard.”

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Long Table 176. The Royal Maundy-Ceremony and Coins
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Change Of Leadership at the American Numismatic Society
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Change Of Leadership at the American Numismatic Society

PRESS RELEASE | Dr. Gilles Bransbourg will be stepping down from his position as Executive Director in September 2024. Dr. Ute Wartenberg Kagan, currently President of the ANS, has agreed to take over the position.

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February 2024 eNews
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February 2024 eNews

There is one month left to apply for this year’s Summer Seminar, Peter van Alfen is appointed Chairperson of the CCAC, and the 2024 Gala was a great success!

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Peter van Alfen Appointed Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory...
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Peter van Alfen Appointed Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee

PRESS RELEASE | Peter van Alfen, Chief Curator at the American Numismatic Society, has been appointed the next Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee by the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

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December 2023 eNews
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December 2023 eNews

Jesse Kraft attends the ICOMON Conference, RRDP announces its final phase, the Summer Seminar is now accepting applications for 2024, and more!

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The Roman Republican Die Project Announces Fourth Phase and Conference  
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The Roman Republican Die Project Announces Fourth Phase and Conference  

PRESS RELEASE | RRDP is excited to announce the fourth and final phase that will demonstrate how RRDP informs current scholarship and encourages new research collaborations.

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Pocket Change

Images of Cataclysm and Renewal on British Celtic Coins
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Images of Cataclysm and Renewal on British Celtic Coins

Figure 1. Catuvellauni gold stater depicting horse, chariot wheel, and astral imagery. (ANS 1944.100.78360)

British Celtic coins are perhaps best-known for…

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More Republican Issues Added to RRDP
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More Republican Issues Added to RRDP
By Alice Sharpless

Figure 1. ANS 1969.83.35. Didrachm, RRC 22/1 (265-242 BCE). 6.54g. Gift of E.R. Miles. Control marks: Club/ΘΘ.

Another batch of Roman…

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Long Table 173. Local Coinages in a Roman World, Second...
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Long Table 173. Local Coinages in a Roman World, Second Century BC–First Century AD: The East

Lucia Carbone, ANS Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics, will discuss her new two-volume publication Local Coinages…

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Long Table 172. NUMMI DIGITALI: The Coin Cabinet Of Archaeological...
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Long Table 172. NUMMI DIGITALI: The Coin Cabinet Of Archaeological Museum “A. Salinas” Of Palermo

NUMMI DIGITALI is a project that aims to expand the access to the numismatic collection at the Museum “A….

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Local Coinages in a Roman World is at the printer!
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Local Coinages in a Roman World is at the printer!
By Lucia Carbone

For the fact that the Romans did not export their own coinage into the Greek world does not mean that…

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Long Table 167. Reevaluation of Cretan Drachm Overstrikes on Kyrenaika...
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Long Table 167. Reevaluation of Cretan Drachm Overstrikes on Kyrenaika Coins

Certain drachms from the Cretan cities of Gortyna, Phalasarna, and Polyrrhenia were overstruck on Kyrenaika coins. These drachm types,…

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Love, Bound (Justly?)
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Love, Bound (Justly?)
By The American Numismatic Society

Austin Goodwin Andrews

Valentine’s Day greeting cards popularly depict archer babies with wings as symbols of romance. This strange iconography ultimately…

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Long Table 171. Overview of So-Called Dollars: The Stories They...
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Long Table 171. Overview of So-Called Dollars: The Stories They Have to Tell

From the 1853 New York Crystal Palace Industrial Exposition of All Nations through the 1964 New York World’s Fair,…

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