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With a collection as large as the American Numismatic Society’s, those of us who work with it daily are bound to find something we are unfamiliar with. When this happens, we normally go to our colleagues first, and if they are equally stumped, a bit of internet sleuthing is usually enough to figure out what the gist of it is, and what additional resources are needed to dive deeper into it. But sometimes an object is so vexing, so perplexing, that even when knowing what it is and what the authoritative resources are, there doesn’t seem to be a logical…
Comedian and ANS member Harry “Parkyakarkus” Einstein, 1938
Recently I was leafing through an old Numismatist from the 1940s, looking for…
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Coinage of the Americas Conference 2023:18th & 19th C. Design and Production
Generously sponsored by the Resolute Americana Collection…
March 30, 2023
Figure 1. Some of the pallets staged in Green Bay ready for pickup.
In 2018, the American Numismatic…
March 15, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed on Friday, March 10, 2023, followed shortly by Signature Bridge Bank.
Based on historical…
March 13, 2023
Medals help tell a story, but they rarely tell the entire story. The medallic arts are often employed…
The United States Mint (Mint) invites the public to participate in a new research study to collect customer preferences on…
January 23, 2023
From time to time here at the ANS Library we still get books and other numismatic items from…
The discovery of vast amounts of gold in California upset the ratio between gold and silver, to the point where…
July 12, 2022
By Jérôme Jambu, Visiting Professor, Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics. Professor of Modern History, University…
June 7, 2022
Engraving of a Higley Copper from Sylvester S. Crosby’s The Early Coins of America (1875)
The grammatical first person…
This week, the ANS continues to highlight new books you might have missed. Today features Syd Martin’s massive monograph and…