2010 ANS Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar

Schedule

Week One: Numismatic Skills and Methodologies

Monday, June 7

• 10:30 Welcome, Introductions, and Tour (van Alfen)
• 1:00 Library Orientation (Hahn)
• 2:30 Numismatic Databases (Heath)

Tuesday, June 8

• 10:30 Questions of Coin Description and Style (Meadows & van Alfen)
• 1:30 ANS Coin Vault Tour (van Alfen)
• 2:30 The Numismatic Toolkit (Witschonke)

Wednesday, June 9

• 10:30 Advisor Assignments and Meetings
• 1:00 Die Studies (Witschonke)
• 2:30 Why Coinage? Political and Economic Aspects (van Alfen)

Thursday, June 10

• 10:30 Hoard Studies (Witschonke)
• 1:00 Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage (van Alfen)
• 2:30 Metrology, Weight Standards, and Quantification (Meadows)

Friday, June 11

• 10:30 Hellenistic Coinages (Meadows)
• 1:00 Coin Exercise 1 assignment
• 1:30 Group Meeting
• 2:00 Islamic Group Meeting
• 3:30 Welcoming Party and Photos

Week Two: Introductions to Coinages and Monetary Systems

Monday, June 14

• 10:30 Roman Republican Coinage (Witschonke)
• 1:00 Roman Imperatorial and Imperial Coinage (Woytek)
• 2:30 Roman Provincial Coinage (Woytek)

Tuesday, June 15

• 10:30 Byzantine Coinage (Stolyarik)
• 1:00 Medieval Coinage (Hoge)
• 2:30 Metalurgical Analysis of Coins (Keyser)

Wednesday, June 16

• 10:30 Coinages of the Early Islamic Period (Bates)
• 1:00 Coinages and Monetary Economy of the Middle Islamic Period and the “Gunpowder Empires” (Heidemann)
• 2:30 Modern and American Coinage (Hoge)

Thursday, June 17

• 10:30 The Cistophoric Coinage: A Case Study (Witschonke)

Friday, June 18

• 10:30 Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Inscribed Numismatic Evidence (Bacharach)
• 1:00 Coin Exercise 1 presentations
• 2:00 Advisor Meetings/Select Research Topics
• 3:00 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Three: Special Topics

Monday, June 21

• 1:00 Medals from the Renaissance to the 20th c. (vanAlfen)
• 2:30 Chinese Coinage (Withington/Hoge)

Tuesday, June 22

• 10:30 Legal and Ethical Issues in Numismatics (Witschonke)
• 1:00 Temples, Elephants, Shields, and Chariots: The Later Sestertii of Tiberius (Cox)
• 2:30 The Creation of RPC IV (Yarrow)

Wednesday, June 23

• 10:30 The Cistophori and Other Provincial Silver Issues of Trajan: Structures of Coin Production in the High Principate (Woytek)
• 1:00
• 2:30 Coin Forgery (Hoge)

Thursday, June 24

• 10:30 Trajan’s Bilingual Coins (Woytek)

Friday, June 25

• 10:30 Coin Exercise 2 presentations
• 1:00 Group Meeting
• 1:30 Advisor Meetings
• 2:30 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Four: Projects

Monday, June 28

• 10:30 Countermarked Coinage (Kleeberg)
• 1:00
• 2:30 The Restored Coinages of the Roman Empire: New Research (Woytek)

Tuesday, June 29

• 7:00 Visit to Classical Numismatic Group

Wednesday, June 30

Thursday, July 1

Friday, July 2

• 10:30 Coin Exercise 3 presentations
• 1:00 Group Meeting
• 1:30 Advisor Meetings
• 2:30 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Five: Midterm

Monday, July 5

• ANS Closed

Tuesday, July 6

• 10:30 An Imperfect Tool: Style and Its Use in Determining Minting Sequence During the 3rd and 2nd c. BC (Marinescu)

Wednesday, July 7

Thursday, July 8

Friday, July 9

• 10:30 Interim Reports. Annotated Bibliographies due.
• 1:00 Group Meeting
• 1:30 Advisor Meetings
• 2:30 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Six: Projects

Tuesday, July 13

• 10:00 Tour of Federal Reserve and Lower Manhattan (van Alfen)

Wednesday, July 14

Thursday, July 15

• 6:00 New York Numismatic Club Meeting. Triumphus in nummis: The Triumph in the Coinage of the Late Roman Republic (Woytek)

Friday, July 16

• 1:00 Group Meeting
• 1:30 Advisor Meetings
• 2:30 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Seven: Projects

Monday, July 19

Thursday, July 22

Friday, July 24

• 1:00 Group Meeting
• 1:30 Advisor Meetings
• 2:30 Islamic Group Meeting

Week Eight: Final Presentations

Wednesday, July 28

• 10:00 Student Presentations

Thursday, July 29

• 10:00 Student Presentations