ANS Lyceum: Online Courses at the ANS

September 20-November 8, 2023

Coinage and Civil Wars through the Centuries

This series of lectures will address the relationship between coin production, circulation, and civil wars from ancient to modern times. Beginning with a lecture quantifying the increase in hoard deposition during civil wars, this ANS Lyceum will then deal with the realities of civic strife in the Greek and Roman world and Modern Age England. The last two sessions will be dedicated to the analysis of coins and tokens issued during the course of the US Civil War. 

September 20 — Coin Deposits and Civil Wars in a Long-Term Perspective (c. 400 BC-1950 AD) (François de Callataÿ, Royal Library of Belgium)

September 27 — War and Territorial Conflicts in Classical Cyprus (Evangeline Markou, National Hellenic Research Foundation)

October 4 — Images and Weights of War in the Late Roman Republic: The Coinage of the Imperatores (Lucia F. Carbone, ANS)

October 11 —Civil Unrest and Debasement in the Tetrarchic Age (Lucia F. Carbone and Gilles Bransbourg, ANS)

October 18 — Civil War and Its Specter on the Coinage of the Early Roman Empire (Nathan T. Elkins, ANS)

October 25 — King, Country and Cromwell: Numismatics of the English Civil Wars (Robert Hoge, ANS)

November 1 — Petty Cash: Coins and Tokens of the American Civil War (Jesse Kraft, ANS)

November 8 — Mobilized Money: The Modernization of Paper Currency through the American Civil War (Jesse Kraft, ANS)

Wednesdays,
12:30–2:00 pm (ET)

$100 for ANS Members
$250 for non-members

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Scholarships are available for students

The ANS Lyceum is an online educational offering from the American Numismatic Society. Over several weeks, participants have the opportunity to engage in interactive lectures and discussion sessions with ANS curators, staff, and other specialists. The ANS Lyceum is open to all with no prior knowledge of numismatics or history required or expected.

Past ANS Lyceum courses

March 31–May 5, 2021

Coins from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods 

with ANS Chief Curator Dr. Peter van Alfen

May 19–June 30, 2021

Coins of Rome

with Executive Director Dr. Gilles Bransbourg & Assistant Curator Dr. Lucia Carbone

July 14–August 4, 2021

Photography Workshop

with ANS Senior Photographer Alan Roche

September 22–October 27, 2021

Money of the United States

with Dr. Jesse Kraft, Assistant Curator of American Numismatics

February 9–March 16, 2022

Judean and Biblical Numismatics

with David Hendin, ANS First Vice President and Honorary Curator

Lyceum Systems Poster

April 13–May 18, 2022

Numismatic Methods and Theories

with Dr. Lucia Carbone, Warren Esty, Paul Keyser, Dr. Jesse Kraft, Dr. Peter van Alfen, and David Yoon

October 19–November 16, 2022

Iconic Women of the Ancient World

with Professor Mariangela Puglisi, Mary Lannin, Professor Liv Mariah Yarrow, Dr. Lucia F. Carbone, and Professor Martin Beckmann 

April 19–May 24, 2023

Collection Management and Coin Conservation 

with Dr. Peter van Alfen, David Yoon, Dr. Alan Stahl, Jennifer Gloede, Dr. Ellen Feingold, Dr. Nathan T. Elkins, and David Hendin