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The collections of the American Numismatic Society include many medals pertaining to famous architecture, including some of buildings which have been destroyed since their medallic depiction. Among these are the medals dedicated to the Crystal Palaces of London and New York.
The original Crystal Palace was built in London’s Hyde Park in 1851. It was designed and erected by the famous English gardener and architect Joseph Paxton (1803–1865). As head gardener for the Duke of Devonshire, Paxton had already designed and built major greenhouses for his employer. His plan for the Crystal Palace was based on that experience as well as…
Austin Goodwin Andrews is a curatorial assistant in the Ancient Greek Coins Department of the American Numismatic Society. Before joining…
By Tara Sewell-Lasater
Queen Berenice II ruled in Egypt during the period of 246 to 221 BCE as the wife of…
In the early 1990s, Don Everhart of the Society of Medalists from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, struck a series of…
I was working on an article about George Kunz and the redesign of United States Coinage (ANS Magazine, 2017/1) when…
One of the ways that the ANS teaches students about numismatics is through student internships, where a student gets to…
Sample die connections as created by the CADS algorithm.
Coins first appeared in the western world some 2,700 years ago. During…
The digitization of the American Numismatic Society’s backlist of monographs has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as…
Fig. 1: Escapism.
It is that time of year. The holidays have come and long gone, leaving nothing but the bills….
Note: The majority of this post and the migration framework (academia-migrate) were authored about a year ago, but placed on…
By Jeremy Simmons
For my ANS Seminar Project, I decided to look at silver coins of the Western Kṣatrapas, who ruled…
by Elizabeth Hahn Benge, former ANS Librarian
Truer words could not be said by someone with a passion for ancient history, especially…