December 2022 eNews
Announcements & Upcoming Events
2023 Gala honoring Heritage Auctions
On January 12, 2023, the ANS will honor Heritage Auctions with the 2023 Trustees’ Award. Sponsorships, individual tickets, and Gala program advertisements are now available for purchase in support of our major annual fundraising event. More…
2022 Stack Family Lecture on American Numismatics
Please join us on Saturday, December 10 at 1:30, when ANS Fellow John Kraljevich will present “Slave Badges and Dog Tags: Personal Artifacts of Enslaved and Free African-Americans Before 1865.” This talk will explore these two groups of numismatic objects and their related personal histories. Lunch will be provided an hour before the lecture. RSVP to attend in person. More…
ANS Member Holiday Party
Please join us Thursday, December 15 at 5:00 PM ET as we celebrate the holiday season and present the American Israel Numismatic Association’s Shekel Prize to ANS Vice President and Honorary Curator David Hendin. Food and drink will be served. RSVP.
Applications are open for the 2023 ANS Summer Seminar
The Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics is an eight-week course, taught by ANS staff and guest lecturers, that introduces students to the methods, theories, and history of numismatics. In addition to the lecture program, students will select a numismatic research topic and, utilizing ANS resources, complete a paper while in residence. We are now accepting applications for the 67th annual seminar. Apply.
The Early Betts Medal Companion
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the publication The Early Betts Medal Companion: Medals of America’s Discovery and Colonization (1492–1737), the fifth volume in the Society’s Studies in Medallic Art series. Authored by Christopher R. McDowell, this book brings to fruition the dream of nineteenth-century numismatist Charles Wyllys Betts to illustrate American colonial history. Since Betts’ text first appeared posthumously in 1894, new information has come to light regarding each medal he enumerated. The Early Betts Medal Companion updates and illustrates each listing in the first two chapters of Betts, known to collectors and researchers as Betts-1 to Betts-170. Purchase.
The Planchet, S3, Ep. 8. A Conversation with Waleed Ziad
Dr. Waleed Ziad is Assistant Professor and Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His newest book, published by the American Numismatic Society in 2022, is: In the Treasure Room of the Sakra King: Votive Coinage from Gandhāran Shrines. In this episode, he talks about the new book, the history, coinage, and geography of Gandhara, who exactly was the Sakra King, and Waleed’s early numismatic and archaeological adventures. Listen.
The ANS at the AIA/SCS in New Orleans
Join ANS President and Research Curator Dr. Ute Wartenberg, Deputy Director Dr. Nathan Elkins, and Director of Publications Dr. Andrew Reinhard at the joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), January 5-8, 2023 in New Orleans. We would love to see you at the ANS booth in the exhibit hall. Please join us for drinks at the ANS-sponsored reception on the evening of Friday, January 6, where Dr. Wartenberg will deliver some brief remarks. And, if you’re interested in presenting a numismatic topic at the 2024 AIA/SCS meeting in Chicago, submission deadlines are soon approaching for sessions on “Coins, Copies, and Prototypes,” organized by the Friends of Numismatics of the SCS, and “Ancient Coins and Sculpture,” organized by the Numismatics Interest Group of the AIA. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
Conference in Athens: “Ἀργύριον Ἀττικόν”
The ANS and the University of Athens, Greece are organizing a workshop on Classical coinage on December 6, 2022 in Athens, Greece. Exploring new hoard evidence, scholars will discuss revised chronologies for Athenian history in the fifth century BCE. The event, organized by Selene Psoma and Ute Wartenberg, will also serve as a memorial of the great numismatist Ioannis N. Svoronos (1863-1922)—the first scholar to attempt a systematic study of Athenian coinage—who died a century ago. Speakers will include Dr. Ute Wartenberg, Trustee Jonathan Kagan, Chief Curator Dr. Peter van Alfen, and former Trustee and Vice President Professor John H. Kroll. More…
The 2022 Annual Report
The ANS’s 2022 fiscal year (October 1, 2021–September 30, 2022) saw an abundance of activities. The Annual Report covers the Society’s fundraising efforts, programs, research, education, and more from this period. As always, we thank our members for your belief in the importance of our mission, and for your determination to keep the ANS at the very forefront of numismatics. Read the 2022 Annual Report.
Money in Judaea: Bronze Age to Bar Kokhba
On Tuesday December 13 at 5.00 PM GMT, David Hendin will present an overview of ancient scale weights used to weigh metals in market transactions prior to the invention of coinage and its introduction into ancient Israel. Hosted by The Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (AIAS), this talk is open to the public. Keep an eye on the AIAS site for more information.
Wartenberg in Thessaloniki
Dr. Ute Wartenberg will participate in a conference in memory of Yannis Touratsoglou at the University of Thessaloniki from 1-2 December. Dr. Touratsoglou, one of Greece’s most eminent archaeologists, was a specialist in ancient numismatics, who passed away last year. Some thirty friends and colleagues will speak about his career as an archaeologist, curator, museum director, scholar, and friend.
Upcoming Long Tables
Prof. Dr. Fleur Kemmers will discuss how numismatic iconography was understood by the very diverse inhabitants of the Roman world; Dr. Ragnar Hedlund will explore the collection of the Uppsala University Coin Cabinet; and Denise Allen will present the Renaissance medals that were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Mark and Lottie Salton.
November in Review
ANS Lyceum
November saw the last session of the recent lesson of the ANS Lyceum: Iconic Women of the Ancient World. The course was taught by Professor Mariangela Puglisi, Mary Lannin, Professor Liv Mariah Yarrow, Dr. Lucia F. Carbone, and Professor Martin Beckmann. Lecturers covered topics ranging from Ptolemaic influences in Sicily, the Hellenistic queen Cleopatra Thea, elite women and Roman Republican Coinage, local women and Roman Provincial coinage, and the women and coinage in Antonine Rome.
Nathan Elkins participated in Jodi Magness Conference Session
Dr. Nathan Elkins delivered the paper “A Primer for Reading Roman Coin Iconography: Perspectives from Roman and New Testament Studies” on Friday, November 18 at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) in Boston, as part of a session in honor Professor Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Elkins has worked as the field numismatist on two excavations that Prof. Magness has directed in Israel: the late-Roman fort at Yotvata and the late-Roman/Byzantine synagogue and village at Huqoq. A Festschrift in honor of Prof. Magness is forthcoming from Brill.
Deep Water Shipwrecks and Coins in the Americas
Hosted by the Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet of Stockholm, Sweden in collaboration with Stockholm University’s Numismatic Research Group and the Swedish Numismatic Society, Dr. Peter van Alfen gave a virtual presentation on deep water marine coin finds discovered off American shores. A recording will be available soon.
Old Money vs. New Money
On November 30, Citco and the Paideia Institute presented a panel discussion on monetary pasts and futures. ANS Executive Director Dr. Gilles Bransbourg and ANS Fellow Professor Liv Mariah Yarrow joined Bloomberg finance journalist Matt Levine and BitCoin expert Kurt Wuckert Jr. to discuss contemporary financial markets in the context of the academic study of coins and currency, traditionally a humanistic discipline. A video will be available soon on the Paideia YouTube channel. More…
Carbone at the NYNC
On November 11, 2022, Dr. Lucia F. Carbone, ANS Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics, delivered the Theodor Mommsen Birthday Commemorative Lecture at the 1,367th Consecutive Monthly Meeting of the New York Numismatic Club. She spoke on the topic, “Women in the spotlight. Portraits of Women in the Late Republic and Early Empire.”
Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium
Held on November 17-19th, the NNP Symposium hosted a series of presentations and discussions on a wide range of numismatic topics. Dr. Jesse Kraft presented new research on the eighteenth century die engraver Elias Gervais and his potential relationship to the Continental Dollar. In addition, the NNP premiered this Symposium’s feature video, “U.S. Coins in the ANS Cabinet,” followed by a Q&A session by Dr. Kraft.
Kraft Speaks on Seventeenth Century Mint Fraud
On November 2, ANS Resolute Americana Assistant Curator of American Numismatics Dr. Jesse Kraft spoke at a Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC lot viewing conference with a talk entitled “The Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649: Its Causes and Effects.” Watch on Facebook.
November Long Tables
Dr. Danny Syon, the Head of Scientific Assessment Branch of the Israel Antiquities Authority, spoke on a hoard of Syrian tetradrachms; 2022 ANS Summer Seminar Student Eduardo García-Molina presented on serrated bronzes of the Hellenstic king Seleukos IV; and Professor Cristian Gazdac of the University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) discussed the so-called Dacian Kosons. Watch recorded Long Tables on the ANS YouTube channel.
