Pocket Change Blog
Pocket Change is the official blog of the American Numismatic Society.
The ANS has a selection of rare Roman coins on display as part of an exhibition at Bulgari’s flagship store in New York City. “BVLGARI + ROME: Eternal Inspiration” reflects on the jeweler’s long association with the “Eternal City,” where the original shop was opened in 1884 by Sotirios Boulgaris. The exhibition includes a mix of contemporary jewelry and ancient Roman artifacts and coins.
Bulgari has from time to time also used actual ancient coins in its line as with this choker embedded with a tetradrachm of Alexander the Great. New York magazine has a wonderful slide show of some of the items on display.
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The Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University has just opened a fascinating new exhibition with the theme of “Hair…
Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director of the American Numismatic Society, spoke about collecting coins and the conflict in Syria as…
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On October 5, 1858, the New York Crystal Palace burned to the ground in just forty minutes after a fire…
One of the most overlooked aspects of both numismatic and printing history in the United States is the ephemeral genre of serials…
This week at the International Numismatic Congress in Taormina, I gave a presentation about the US Trade Dollar, a silver…
The American Numismatic Society’s reception at the International Numismatic Congress this evening is being held in honor of Basil C. Demetriadi…
The ongoing discussion about changing the personages who grace US currency is one that we have covered before (here, here, and…
This is part an ongoing series that answers your questions about our collections. If there’s something you would like to know…
For the Summer issue of the ANS Magazine, curator Gilles Bransbourg contributed a story that explored an interesting numismatic dimension of…
This past week I have been working on my presentation for the upcoming International Numismatic Congress, which concerns U.S. trade dollars,…
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One of the more fascinating documents among the Society’s collections is a so-called ‘letters patent’ dated July 10, 1786,…