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Figure 1. The COAC 2023 Banner, reproduced from L’Encyclopédie de Diderot et d’Alembert, first published in 1751.
On Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 23, 2023, the American Numismatic Society held a very successful Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC), sponsored by the Resolute Americana Collection and the Stack Family. For nearly 40 years now, these conferences have brought together expert numismatists on a variety of topics in American numismatics. This was the 20th COAC held by the ANS since its inception in 1984 by ANS Past President Harry Bass. Some of the past COAC themes included “America’s Copper Coinage,” “The…
The ANS’s Paul Revere Medal by Anthony de Francisci, 1925 (0000.999.20962)
From the late 19th into the early 20th century, the…
With a collection as large as the American Numismatic Society’s, those of us who work with it daily are bound…
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…
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed on Friday, March 10, 2023, followed shortly by Signature Bridge Bank.
Based on historical FDIC online…
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…
From time to time here at the ANS Library we still get books and other numismatic items from the library…
The discovery of vast amounts of gold in California upset the ratio between gold and silver, to the point where…
By Jérôme Jambu, Visiting Professor, Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics. Professor of Modern History, University of Lille…