December 2023 eNews
Upcoming Events & Announcements
Tickets Now Available for the 2024 ANS Gala
On January 11, 2024, the ANS will honor Mark Salzberg at the Harvard Club of New York City with the 2024 Trustees’ Award as part of our major annual fundraising event. Sponsorships, individual tickets, and advertisements in the Gala program are available to purchase. We hope you will join us in January! More.
Heritage Auctions Sale of Canadian Tokens to Benefit the ANS
On December 4, 2023, a selection of duplicate 19th and 20th century Canadian tokens will be offered at a showcase auction held by Heritage Auctions, for the benefit of the Society. A notable collection of over 1000 objects, this sale will contain specimens donated to the society by the Norwebs—whose tokens collections was one of the greatest of the 20th century—as well as notable Canadian numismatists: B. Baird, Alfred Z. Reed, P.O. Tremblay, and W.R. Powell. Explore the auction.
The Roman Republican Die Project Announces 2025 Conference and Final Phase
The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) is excited to announce the fourth and final phase of the project, which will culminate in a conference, hosted by the American Academy in Rome from April 9-11, 2025. This phase of the RRDP, which seeks to create a digital repository of Roman republican coin dies based on the archive of Dr. Richard Schaefer, will demonstrate how the project informs current scholarship and encourages new research collaborations. More.
Applications are Now Open for the 2024 Summer Seminar
The Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics is a rigorous eight-week course taught by ANS staff and guest lecturers, and introduces students to the methods, theories, and history of the discipline. During the program, students will select a numismatic research topic and utilize ANS resources to complete a paper while in residence. Learn more about the Summer Seminar and apply.
The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva
Nathan T. Elkins, ANS Deputy Director, will deliver the Holiday Lecture in the NUMISMA lecture series of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies on December 12, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET. His lecture, entitled “The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva,” is also a subject of his book published by Oxford University Press. The book and lecture reevaluate the interpretation of messages on Nerva’s coinage, examine the frequency of images and their audiences according to single finds and hoards, and interrogate the agency behind the formulation of visual messages on the imperial coinage.
Coinage in Imperial Space: Coins in the Economy of the Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic World: Conference Papers in Phoenix
Papers from the 2017 conference in Krakow, Poland will be published in volume 76 of Phoenix, a journal of the Classical Association of Canada. The conference was organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, and the National Museum in Krakow. Authors in the conference report include Peter van Alfen (ANS Chief Curator), Jonathan Kagan (ANS Trustee), and Andrew Meadows (former ANS Deputy Director). To purchase, contact phoenix@utoronto.ca.
Two Numismatic Calls for Papers
Two numismatic sessions are planned for the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies. The Friends of Numismatics seeks abstracts for an organized session on “Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy”; the due date for submissions is February 16, 2024. The Numismatics Interest Group is seeking abstracts for an organized session on “Coins and Archaeology”; the due date for submissions is February 28, 2024.
December Long Tables
Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Arnaud Suspène (Université d’Orléans) will present their analysis of a large dataset of Roman gold coinage from the Second Punic War to the Flavians. Florida State University Professor, Edward Gray, will tell the rags-to-riches tale of Benjamin Franklin and his impact on American paper currency. Lucia F. Carbone, Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics at the ANS, will speak on the Richard B. Witschonke collection. More.
November in Review
Jesse Kraft at the ICOMON Conference in Malaysia
In mid-November, the International Committee of Money and Banking Museums (ICOMON) held its 29th Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the theme of “Sustainability in Money Museums.” The event attracted ICOMON members from 20 different countries, with the majority of participants acting as representatives of the central bank numismatic collections of their respective countries. Resolute Americana Assistant Curator of American Numismatics, Jesse Kraft, represented the ANS at the conference and delivered a paper on modern technologies that can help a money museum keep better track of items in its collection. More.
The ANS Welcomes CUNY Students
On November 30, Dr. Lucia Carbone welcomed students from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), accompanied by Prof. Lucas Rubin. She introduced them to Roman, Hispano-Carthaginian and Siculo-Punic coinages issued during the first two Punic Wars.
Gilles Bransbourg at Le Studium
On November 13, ANS Executive Director Gilles Bransbourg presented “Currency Policy and Inflation in the Roman Empire” at Le Studium, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies in Orleans, France. He discussed how the Roman and Byzantine Empires provide an exceptional framework for the study of money over the long term. Watch.
Nathan Elkins and Jesse Kraft attend the Whitman Expo in Baltimore
Nathan Elkins, ANS Deputy Director, and Jesse Kraft, Resolute Americana Assistant Curator of American Numismatics, attended the Whitman Winter Expo in Baltimore on November 9–11, 2023. In addition to catching up with many of the ANS members who also attended, Kraft delivered a lecture on the impact of hoards and shipwrecks on colonial numismatics. Watch.
Long Tables from November
ANS Life Fellow and Honorary Trustee, Roger Siboni, outlined the history of the Franco-American Castorland jeton. Bernhard Weisser, Director of the Berlin Münzkabinett, spoke about the coin dies of the renowned German coin forger Carl Wilhelm Becker. Sam Moorhead, who recently retired as the National Finds Adviser for Ancient Coins in the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum, presented a complete reappraisal of Carausius’ coinage and the wealth of new information that has been discovered about his silver coins. Watch recorded Long Tables.
