Pocket Change Greek
By Ruben Post
Following the conquests of Alexander the Great (334–324 BCE), the many civic mints of the Greek world continued to produce silver coinage on several different weight standards. In southern Greece, the principal standard was the so-called Aiginetan (based on a drachm of c. 6 g). In the course of the 3rd c. BCE, however, most of these mints ceased to operate, and city after city joined increasingly powerful federal states, until in the early 2nd c. BCE only three such states—the Aitolian, Boiotian, and Achaian Leagues—came to dominate much of mainland Greece. At this same time, federal coinages unsurprisingly replaced…
By Jeremy Simmons
For my ANS Seminar Project, I decided to look at silver coins of the Western Kṣatrapas, who ruled…
By Giuseppe Carlo Castellano
The indigenous inhabitants of Bronze and Iron Age Sicily exchanged bronze objects as a proto-monetary currency. Ingots,…
Dr. Elsbeth van der Wilt
For my ANS project I am looking at a metrological problem: the equivalencies in the written…
By Nathanael Andrade
Silver didrachm, Hierapolis Bambyce (ANS 1971.73.3)
For my project, I am doing a close study of the silver coins…
In a previous installment we looked at the under-appreciated and underutilized leaden riches of the ANS cabinet. In truth, however,…
On April 12, Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans of Oxford University delivered the 2016 Harry W. Fowler Memorial Lecture, “Imperialism and…
Jesus, as a practicing Jew, was aware of his annual financial obligation to the Jerusalem Temple. This annual tribute is…
Husam al-Din Timurtash. ANS 1917.215.1394
One of the really wonderful things about numismatic study is the way that coin types frequently…
There was a significant “Third Revolt” of the Jews during the reign of the emperor Trajan (98–117 AD). This war…
I was casting about for a subject appropriate to the holiday season when I came across this coin:
ANS, 1943.132.4
And so I…
Tyndale Bible at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Every year at Christmas time, I seem to see mentions of the “poor widow’s…