Pocket Change Roman
By Liv Mariah Yarrow
I never had the pleasure of meeting Charles Hersh in his lifetime, but over these last few weeks I’ve been meeting the man, his brilliance, his meticulous research habits, and a little of his personal tastes, all through his papers on deposit here at the ANS. A few months ago a friend and colleague, Jordan Montgomery, asked me what I knew of these papers. I’d seen a few scans of one or two documents and knew others had made some use of it, but really not much at all. Jordan said his curiosity was piqued by conversations…
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire:…
One way to study numismatic objects is through the lens of the anthropological/archaeological concept of object biography. A helpful guide…
by Alice Sharpless
This blog post is a preliminary version of an article to be submitted for peer review. Comments and…
by Liv M. Yarrow and Alice Sharpless
This post announces the third data release from the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP)….
December 28, 2021. I spend a lot of time thinking about the significance and intent behind certain images on ancient…
Fig. 1. Athens. New Style tetradrachm with monogram interpreted as ΜΑΡΚΟΥ (Lucullus)/ ΤΑΜΙΟΥ. Thompson 1313. ANS 2015.20.871 (bequest of R….
Fig. 1. So-called “Sulla,” a copy (probably from the time of Augustus) after a portrait of an important Roman from…
As one of the leading international centers of numismatic research, it’s no surprise that the stories coins tell about the…
by Alice Sharpless and Lucia Carbone
This blog post accompanies the second release of data for the RRDP Project. You can…
This last summer an email message to the ANS Curatorial Department requested that an attempt be made to use the…
The Latin legend RAVIS which occurs on the reverse of this imitative denarius (Fig. 1) has long been associated with…