June 2020 eNews
Announcements & Upcoming Events
We are back!
We are pleased to be sending you our June E-News from the ANS headquarters in New York City. Our first from the office in over three months. We began opening up on June 22, when New York City entered Phase 2, and we will be up and running fully by July 6. Though we won’t be able to welcome visitors for the foreseeable future, we will continue the virtual lectures and discussion— all of which have been so well-received during these last few months and will now be enhanced by access to the collection. We look forward to continuing to visit with all of you online.
July 18 Money Talks | “An Introduction to the State Coinages of the Confederation, 1785–1788”
Join Ray Williams on July 18 for a Money Talks on State coinages of the Confederation. Under the “Articles of Confederation,” the rights of the individual states to coin money was recognized. The states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey took advantage and passed legislation authorizing the production of a copper coinage. Vermont was not yet a state, but followed suit. When the Constitution was ratified, it took away the states’ rights to produce their own coinage. We will present an overview of the legislation, mints, people involved, and the coins themselves. More…
The 2020 Mid-Year Appeal Continues Through July
Thanks to your unwavering loyalty and generosity, we have been able to set an ambitious pace for 2020. Highlights of recent activity are described in the 2020 Mid-Year Appeal flyer. Today we ask that you please consider making a donation so we can continue to build on the momentum we have gained so far. Many of you have already contributed, thank you! Make a Donation.
The Planchet Ep. 4, A Brief History of Women Coin Collectors
The fourth episode of The Planchet features guest ANS Trustee Mary Lannin talking about five notable women coin collectors from the 15th to the 20th centuries, and the state of the field in 2020: Isabella d’Este, Comtesse Martine de Béhague, Olga H. Knoepke, Elisabeth Washburn King, and Emery May Norweb. More…
The 2020 JEAN is here!
The first JEAN of 2020 will be mailed out this week! “Collecting American Colonial Coins in Eighteenth-Century England,” by Jeff Rock, “Aztec Influence in Early Spanish Colonial Four-Reales Coinage,” 1538–1542 by Philip C. Ellsworth, “The Montreal Medal of Songose: A Case Study of Established Numismatic Lore” by Julia H. Casey.
The spring issue of ANS Magazine will also be arriving to members within the next two weeks.
An Important OCRE Update
Richard Abdy’s recent “Roman Imperial Coinage” Vol. II, Part 3 (the coinage of Hadrian) has been published to Online Coins of the Roman Empire. The project has established a concordance between old and new type numbers, making it possible for databases to transition to the new typology. In addition to digitizing the information in the volume, the OCRE update creates “supertypes,” a valuable tool for collectors. The use of a “supertype” allows related coins to be grouped where no 1:1 relationship exists between the old and the new volumes. More…
A New Monograms Function in Hellenistic Royal Coinages
With the help of Mark Pyzyk, Lauren Tomanelli, and Oliver Hoover, we have been systematically digitizing the monograms appearing on the coins covered in our online resources under the Hellenistic Royal Coinages (HRC) banner, these include the coinages of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander III in PELLA, the coins of the Seleucids in Seleucid Coins Online and the coins of the Ptolemies in Ptolemaic Coins Online. Nearly 5,000 individual monograms have been created as scalable and printable svg files. Individual nomisma.org IDs have then been created for each monogram, which is then linked to the type record in HRC for the coin type on which the monogram appears, whether in PELLA, SCO, or PCO. More…
June in Review
Money Talks | “Stories and Conversations as Recorded by Seleucid Coins”
On June 6, Adjunct Curator, Oliver D. Hoover hosted a Money Talks ‘Story Time’ and spoke on Seleucid coins and the tales they can tell us. Among its many wonders, the ANS cabinet houses the largest collection of Seleucid coins in the world. Whether it is about their royal issuers, the cities in which they were produced, or even each other, there is always something to say. Watch on the ANS YouTube Channel.
Long Table Sessions
June Long Table discussions included Signs of Inflation with Executive Director Gilles Bransbourg, Topics in Biblical and Judean Coins with ANS Trustee and First Vice President David Hendin with Chief Curator of Archaeology and Curator of Numismatics at the Israel Museum Haim Gitler, Preparing your Manuscript for Publication with Director of Publication Andrew Reinhard, and The Richard B. Witschonke Collection with Assistant Curator of Roman Coins Lucia Carbone. With a pause for the holiday, the next Long Table will be hosted by Daniel Carr on July 10—designer of the New York and Rhode Island State Quarters, who now runs Moonlight Mint. See Long TableArchive.
Jesse Kraft Interviewed about a Town Printing Wooden ‘Money’
Assistant Curator Dr. Jesse Kraft was interviewed by Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN, about a program in Tenino, WA where wooden money is being printed as COVID relief for their residents. Each resident gets $300 in this wooden money to spend, then the business owners who receive them can turn them into the local government for US currency. Read more.
Money Talks | “What’s New at the Newman Portal?”
On June 27, ANS Fellow and NNP Project Coordinator Len Augsburger gave a very well attended virtual Money Talks on The Newman Numismatic Portal— an online numismatic library that holds over 40,000 items. He provided an overview of the collection and, in particular, discussed activities at the ANS library. Watch on the ANS YouTube Channel.
Jesse Kraft Consulted on Cleaning your Money
Dr. Jesse Kraft was interviewed on KNTV (San Francisco NBC affiliate) by Chris Chmura on money “laundering” or how to properly clean your money during COVID-19. It aired on June 15 in the Bay area and in other locations thereafter. Watch on NBC.
Money Talks | “Die Münzprägung von Milet: Neue Forschungen und Wege”
On June 25 Professor Dr. Bernhard Weisser of Berlin, ANS Research Curator Dr. Ute Wartenberg of New York, and Rudolf Hilbert of München gave a Money Talks lecture for our German-speaking members, covering Miletus and ancient minting techniques.
