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The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 8. An interview with Simon Glenn, Digital Curator of the early modern collections of the Ashmolean Museum, and author of Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria (Numismatic Studies 40). Image: Silver tetradrachm of Demetrius I (200–185 BC), ANS 1997.9.67.

The eighth episode of The Planchet features an interview with Dr. Simon Glenn of the Ashmolean Museum. We discuss Glenn’s new book published by the American Numismatic Society, Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria (Numismatic Studies 40), learning where Bactria was located, who lived there (and when), the history of Hellenistic coins minted in the region and how…

The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 3. White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage. Image: Bibliothèque nationale…