October 2022 eNews
Upcoming Events and Announcements
Inaugural Collier Prize Ceremony and Lecture
The Collier Prize in Ancient Numismatics biennially celebrates outstanding publications or digital resources related to ancient numismatics (650 BCE to 300 CE). Join the ANS on Thursday, October 13 for an award ceremony honoring its inaugural recipient, Roman Imperial Coinage II.3: From AD 117 to AD 138 – Hadrian, with a lecture by its author, numismatics scholar Richard Abdy. The event will be livestreamed. Please RSVP to attend in person.
165th Annual Meeting of the ANS
Please join us for the 165th Annual Meeting of the American Numismatic Society at our headquarters Saturday, October 15 at 3 PM at 75 Varick St., 11th floor, in New York, NY. The Meeting will include departmental updates from ANS staff and the unveiling of new donor plaques, followed by a reception. A sample of recent acquisitions will be on display in the Society’s gallery. The event will also be livestreamed. Please RSVP to attend in person.
The ANS to Honor Heritage Auctions at 2023 Gala Dinner
The ANS is pleased to announce that Heritage Auctions will be the recipient of the 2023 Trustees’ Award. Heritage Auctions, the largest auction house founded in the U.S and the third-largest auction house in the world, has been a generous supporter of the ANS for several decades, sponsoring tables at previous Gala dinners, donating coins and other numismatic items for Gala auctions, and generously providing the services of their talented staff to run those auctions. More…
ANS Lyceum: Iconic Women of the Ancient World
The ANS Lyceum has launched its next course: Iconic Women of the Ancient World, which will review the numismatic history and influence of women around the ancient Mediterranean. This course will take place October 19–November 16, 2022, led by Professor Mariangela Puglisi, Mary Lannin, Professor Liv Mariah Yarrow, Dr. Lucia Carbone, and Professor Martin Beckmann. Register.
The Future of Money
Saturday, October 22, Prof. Dr. Johannes Beermann, Member of the Executive Board at the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Mark A. Gould, Chief Payments Executive of the Federal Reserve Financial Services at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, will visit the ANS to speak on the future of money. ANS Executive Director Dr. Gilles Bransbourg will moderate the panel discussion. This talk will be held in person at ANS headquarters and livestreamed. Please RSVP to attend in person.
ANS Members’ Breakfast
Thanks to the support of an anonymous donor, the ANS will host a breakfast at the 2022 Whitman Baltimore Winter Expo on Friday, October 28, from 7:30 to 9:30 AM. Join us for light fare with remarks by ANS President Dr. Ute Wartenberg at 8 AM. Each member in attendance is welcome to bring one guest. Please RSVP by Monday, October 24. RSVP.
David Hendin to receive the Burnett Anderson Memorial Award
ANS First Vice President and Honorary Curator David Hendin will be honored with the Burnett Anderson Memorial Award for Excellence in Numismatic Writing, which is co-awarded by the American Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Association, with coordination from the Numismatic Literary Guild. More…
The Planchet, A Conversation with Billy Bragg
Singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg joins The Planchet for a wide-ranging conversation about his interest in collecting Iron Age coinage from the United Kingdom (and coins generally), early regional and tribal history from where he grew up, the personal connection to that history through holding archaeological artifacts, and bonds shared between fathers and sons. The conversation concludes with a discussion about “roadside America” and the search for interesting and historical out-of-the-way places while on tour. Listen.
Ute Wartenberg named President of the INC
At the 2022 International Numismatic Congress, ANS President and Research Curator Dr. Ute Wartenberg was named President of the Committee of the International Numismatic Council. Bernhard Weisser, Aleksander Bursche, François de Callatay, Andrew Meadows, Haim Gitler, Fleur Kemmers, Frédérique Duyrat, and Cecilia von Heijne also serve the INC on the committee.
Bactria-Indian Greek Coins
The ANS and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford University launched Bactrian Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR), a new online typology and research tool for ancient Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage. BIGR is a component of the Hellenistic Royal Coinages project and has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a two-year joint ANS-Oxford University project. More…
The ANS and Guinness World Records
The ANS has been named a consultant for Guinness World Records. A renowned institution since the publication of The Guinness Book of Records in 1955, Guinness World Records will now benefit from ANS expertise next time a numismatic record is broken. More…
Jesse Kraft will speak on Colonial Medals for the ANA
On October 18, Dr. Jesse Kraft will virtually present to the American Numismatic Association. Today, medals from the American colonial period are highly-prized objects due to their rarity and historical significance. This eLearning webinar offers a brief introduction to 18 of some of the most important colonial medals. Register.
Upcoming Long Tables
ANS Fellow Richard Beleson will speak on Excavations at Vindolanda; Associate Member and Ph.D. candidate in archaeological conservation Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi is back for his second Long Table, to speak on the conservation of ancient silver and gold coins; Richard Cacchione, the head of the Peruvian Numismatic Society, will present on Argentine Banknotes, Bolivian Currency, and Other Curiosities.
September in Review
The ANS at the INC
From September 12–16, 12 members of the ANS curatorial and research staff went to Warsaw for the International Numismatic Congress—the single largest gathering dedicated to the scholarly study of numismatics from all periods and places, which attracts scholars, researchers, and students pursuing numismatic topics from every corner of the world. Read more about their trip on Pocket Change.
David Hendin in the New York Times
Honorary Curator David Hendin was consulted by the New York Times about a shekel that the U.S. recently returned to Israel. Estimated to be worth upwards of $1 million, it is one of the rarest specimens from the Great Revolt. “It was a very critical time in both Christianity and Judaism and everything we can know about that period is going to come from small clues,” Mr. Hendin said. More…
ANS Coins Featured in National Geographic
On September 23, National Geographic published an extensive look at the mysterious silphion plant. Said to have “cured diseases and made food tasty” in the ancient world and that “Emperor Nero allegedly consumed the last stalk,” new research from Professor Mahmut Miski suggests there is a botanical survivor. A representative from National Geographic visited the ANS to photograph a silver tetradrachm and gold drachm minted in the 4th century B.C. in Cyrene (modern Libya) featuring the image of the silphion plant. Read the article.
Fordham University Visits the ANS
On September 30, Dr. Lucia Carbone, Andrew M. Burnett Assistant Curator of Roman Numismatics, welcomed students studying art history at Fordham University with their professor and alumnus of the ANS Graduate Summer Seminar, Dr. Richard Teverson. She discussed numismatic portraits of women in the late Roman Republic.
Jesse Kraft speaks with CNN
Dr. Jesse Kraft, the Resolute Americana Assistant Curator of American Numismatics at the ANS, was recently interviewed by CNN about the U.S. $2 bill. Although the notes are generally considered to be either a novelty or even obsolete, an increase in their usage would actually result in a savings of time, space, and money. More…
Nathan Elkins Continues Research in Israel
Deputy Director Dr. Nathan Elkins traveled to Jerusalem to work on the 2019 and 2022 excavation coins from the late-Roman synagogue at Huqoq, Israel. The coin finds span a period of 2,400 years. According to their website, “Since 2011, excavations led by Dr. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been bringing to light a monumental, Late Roman (early fifth century C.E.) synagogue paved with stunning mosaics depicting a variety of biblical scenes and the first non-biblical story ever discovered decorating an ancient synagogue.” More…
September Long Tables
Last month, Lecturer at University of Arizona and recent ANS Summer Seminar graduate Dr. Nathaniel Katz discussed imperial legionary coins and civil wars in ancient Rome; ANS Fellow Scott Miller presented on the Robert Fulton Medal; and, with the end of the ANS fiscal year, Deputy Collections Manager John Thomassen reviewed the last year of acquisitions to the ANS Collection.
