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For the week of May 15, Pocket Change will highlight new books that you might have missed, starting with The Early Antigonids: Coinage, Money, and Economy, vol. 37 of the Numismatic Studies series.

This systematic analysis of the gold and silver coinages of “King Antigonos” is intended to explore the nature of the Antigonid cash economy during the second and the third quarter of the third century BC. The author’s principal aim in reconstructing the precious metal coinage of “King Antigonos” is to comprehend the way in which the mints concerned functioned and to identify the major issues of the period….

Bronze As of Augustus, Nemausus, AD 10–14. ANS 1953.171.1600. 

It has long been said that absence of evidence is not evidence…

by Alice Sharpless and Lucia Carbone

The purpose of control marks in Roman Republican coinage is not well understood. Beginning as…

When looked at through the numismatic lens, the Indian peace medals in the extensive collection of the American Numismatic Society…

Although fundamental to our discipline, one of the most difficult skills to teach aspiring Roman numismatists is how to identify…

Charles Ira Bushnell had one of the top two or three coin collections in the United States in the nineteenth…

The Dead Zone was a popular science fiction thriller written by Stephen King in 1979 that was made into a…

Prior to the adoption of the United States dollar with the Mint Act of 1792, the circulating medium in the…

In the world of potentially controversial topics, the idea that coins have a primary (if not singular) purpose—that is, as…

By Liv Mariah Yarrow

I never had the pleasure of meeting Charles Hersh in his lifetime, but over these last few…

Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire:…

Some questions seem too obvious to be worth asking. Everyone knows that a mint is a production facility that strikes…