Pocket Change Roman
Lucia Carbone and Liv M. Yarrow
The following post is a precursor to a Long Table discussion scheduled for Friday, July 16, 1 pm. Please join us then for an open Q&A following the presentation. If you are unable to do so, please feel free to send along any questions or comments to Lucia Carbone and Liv Mariah Yarrow.
Nearly three decades ago Richard Schaefer began collecting images of Roman Republican coins and organizing these images by one die, either obverse or reverse based on which was most distinctive for each type (Figs. 1 and 2).
Figure 1. An image of some of…
Anyone who has been paying attention to the ANS Pocket Change blog or to the ANS Magazine over the last…
The coin presented here (Fig. 1) is one of three known specimens of the cistophorus issued by the rebel Aristonicus…
Part 1 of this 3 part post was published on April 12, 2021
Part 2 of this 3 part post was…
Part 1 of this 3 part post was published on April 12, 2021
The second day of the conference, March 24,…
For the fact that the Romans did not export their own coinage into the Greek world does not mean that…
In his important essay on the coinage of Aristonicus’ rebellion, E. S. G. Robinson famously stated:
The cistophorus, with its writhing…
In the winter of 88 BCE, the proconsul C. Cassius found himself in a little bit of a bind. Earlier…
With its range of hawk-headed and half-mummified deities, the Egyptian pantheon has inspired devotion and intrigue for millennia. Egyptians were…
Figure 1. ANS 1944.100.866.
The coin in Fig. 1 represents the first attestation of the name Italia on coinage. It was…
Numerous coins from the Roman collection of the American Numismatic Society make an outstanding portrait gallery of the founders and…
While perusing the ever-surprising Richard B. Witchonke Collection at the ANS for its forthcoming published catalogue, I had the great…