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Thirty years in the making, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part II, by Catharine C. Lorber, is the long-anticipated second half of the Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire (CPE) project featuring the coins struck by Ptolemy V–Cleopatra VII. As with Part 1, Lorber essentially rewrites the sections on these rulers in J. N. Svoronos’ classic, but now much out-of-date, Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion (1904). The body of coinage catalogued by Svoronos is enlarged by hundreds of additional emissions in precious metal and bronze, recorded from subsequent scholarship, from hoards, from commercial sources, and from private collections. Lorber’s attributions, dates, and…
Infanthood is one of the few universal conditions that every adult has once experienced, which they—other than subconsciously—cannot explicitly recall….
As part of a longer trip abroad, ANS President Ute Wartenberg, together with her husband Jonathan Kagan, went to southwestern…
For the week of May 15, Pocket Change will highlight new books that you might have missed, starting with The…
Over the course of forty years of serious collecting, our friend and colleague Jay Martin Galst amassed an important collection…
On the bills and coins that we use today, we recognize the link between the words and images that appear…
by Peter van Alfen, Ethan Gruber, Andrew Meadows, Simon Glenn, Gunnar Dumke
Silver Drachm of Apollodotus I of Bactria, Uncertain, 174–65…
With its range of hawk-headed and half-mummified deities, the Egyptian pantheon has inspired devotion and intrigue for millennia. Egyptians were…
While perusing the ever-surprising Richard B. Witchonke Collection at the ANS for its forthcoming published catalogue, I had the great…
Ruling over parts of Asia Minor and Macedonia starting with Antigonus I Monophthalmus (the “One-Eyed”, r. 306–301 BC), the Antigonid…
Most readers who have followed the reports in the ANS Magazine and on Pocket Change related to the development of…
One of the more enigmatic aspects of ancient Greek coinage, and Hellenistic coinage in particular, are the many symbols and…