Long Table
In the second of a three-part series that explores the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial coinage (96-98 CE) according to recorded finds and hoards, ANS Deputy Director Nathan Elkins focuses on Nerva’s types that targeted the people of Rome and Italy. Such coins bore images that would have resonated most with important constituencies in the city of Rome, primarily the Senate and urban plebs or to the people of Italy, and which refer specifically to Nerva’s relationships with these privileged groups. These types are generally the least common of Nerva’s coins according to finds and hoards:…
The Royal Maundy is a historic ceremony with origins in the New Testament, held on the Thursday before Easter…
Excavations in Elaiussa Sebaste, an active mint from at least the beginning of the first century BCE to the…
In the Hellenistic period, all matters that concerned coinage were regulated by laws and decrees, and all decisions that…
Lucia Carbone, ANS Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics, will discuss her new two-volume publication Local Coinages…
NUMMI DIGITALI is a project that aims to expand the access to the numismatic collection at the Museum “A….
Certain drachms from the Cretan cities of Gortyna, Phalasarna, and Polyrrhenia were overstruck on Kyrenaika coins. These drachm types,…
From the 1853 New York Crystal Palace Industrial Exposition of All Nations through the 1964 New York World’s Fair,…
In the first of a three-part series that will explore the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial…
The 17th century saw an enormous increase in seaborne trade not just in the regions around Europe, but between…
Claudia Devoto (Università di Roma La Sapienza) will present her research on the coinage of Knossos, reviewing the coin…
The Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics at the ANS, Lucia Carbone, will discuss Local Coinages in…