Pocket Change East Asian
The American Numismatic Society cabinet contains a remarkable collection of Chinese coins and currency ranging from early bronze spade money (Fig. 1) and so-called “ant-nose” coins derived from cowrie shells down to more recent issues of the People’s Republic of China. Within this long parade of money, a watershed moment took place in the late third century BC when Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China (220–210 BC), introduced a new cast bronze coinage to be used throughout his empire. The coins, known in…
Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220) on view at the Metropolitan Museum…
Homemade birthday card from John Reilly’s daughter
A while back I stumbled onto this great homemade card in the John Reilly,…
Xiaoyan Qi participated in 2016’s Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar. Qi is a PhD candidate at Nankai University in Tianjin,…
In a previous installment we looked at the under-appreciated and underutilized leaden riches of the ANS cabinet. In truth, however,…
There are certain numismatic personalities I expect…