Pocket Change Modern
Most of us have a favorite day of the year. For many, it’s their birthday. For others, it’s a particular holiday that is close to their heart, perhaps because of the fond memories it evokes or because of the future memories that will be made when friends and family come together.
For me? Easy: it’s the annual New York International Numismatic Convention.
This is no close contest, either. My birthday? Sure, it’s nice to receive gifts and cheerful rounds of “Happy birthday!” and other such accolades for making it once more around the sun. Christmas? Yes, I certainly do like gathering with…
Sudarso, Kerokan Session, 1992, oil on canvas.
As numismatists, we know that coins have many, many functions and characteristics. Some of…
The recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II (r. 1952–2022) and the elevation King Charles III has prompted questions about how…
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following post is by 2022 ANS Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics student Eduardo García-Molina…
While studying iconography on coins is a major pillar of ancient numismatics, it has been curiously ignored for modern…
with Dr. Jérôme Jambu (Université de Lille)
In the collective imagination, pirates are inseparable from their treasure chests filled…
This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022. It seems like a…
If you have not read Part I of this two-part series and would like to do so, please click here.
As…
This is the second segment of a three-part series to update ANS members and interested guests on the MACO Archives…
There’s a fairly pervasive idea that some people are just born lucky. These people, it’s thought, luck into good schools,…
Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Kenyon Cox (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Du Bois was a big name at the U.S. mint in the…
In the world of humorous coffee shop signs, there is one that has always rung particularly true for this numismatic…