Money Talks
ANS Chief Curator Dr. Peter van Alfen considers the various reasons that modern commentators suggest for the production of ancient coinage in general and Achaemenid royal coinage in particular. Drawing upon theoretical approaches in the fields of economics and political science, he proposes a framework for understanding the rationalities that lay behind ancient coin production beyond just state payments, especially those made for military purposes.
This study seeks to understand better the methods by which money circulated in the colonial and early Federal periods of…
Representations of architecture on Roman coins have long been studied by scholars interested in retrieving information about ancient monuments,…
Director of the Numismatic Department of the Vatican Library, Dr. Eleonora Giampiccolo, speaks on papal medals—discussing why and how…
Assistant Curator of Roman Coins Dr. Lucia Carbone explores the progressive standardization of various civic bronze denominational systems in…
Dr. Caroline Carrier (École normale supérieure de Lyon, caroline.carrier@ens-lyon.fr), Jérémy Artru (Orléans University, jeremy.artru@univ-orleans.fr) and Dr. Thomas Faucher (Centre…
Join Associate Professor at Georgia State University Dr. Harcourt Fuller as he delves into the currencies from more than…
Ray Williams discusses topics around state issued copper coins in pre-revolutionary America. Including why they were needed in the…
Prof. Liv Mariah Yarrow’s new book The Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge University Press 2021)…
By the time of the Hahlo Exhibition in 1912, Victor David Brenner was a globally-acclaimed sculptor and was still…
Bar Kokhba was a rebel Jewish leader in Judaea who led a revolt against the Roman Empire from 132–135…
Dr. Peter van Alfen discusses topics surrounding the Columbian Exposition of 1892-93. In recent years Christopher Columbus and Columbus…