Pocket Change Modern
This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022. It seems like a suitable moment to think about calendars and years and how people define them.
The presence of year dates on coins is tremendously useful to the numismatist—probably more useful than the dates generally were to the governments that decided to put them on the coins, usually for administrative control. And numismatists are well aware that many different dating systems are found on coins from antiquity, from the Islamic world, and from Asia, ranging from regnal years to local eras to major religion-based…
If you have not read Part I of this two-part series and would like to do so, please click here.
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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…
At the end of the Civil War, the United States had the second largest navy in the world after the…
As many of you know, the American Numismatic Society purchased the archives of the Medallic Art Company (MACO) at a…
Quite often, coming across a previously unknown (to you) numismatic object can send one spiraling down a rabbit hole of…
March 12, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding historian, epigrapher, and specialist in northern Black…
A researcher’s inquiry recently got me thinking about an interesting item I’d once found in a pile of unprocessed materials…
Today’s post is authored by Jaharia Knowles, ANS intern. Knowles is a high school senior from New York City. A…