Pocket Change Blog
Pocket Change is the official blog of the American Numismatic Society.
On April 9, 2021, Pocket Change hosted a post of mine that took issue with the popularization of a theory originally published by Jim Bailey in the Colonial Newsletter in 2017. In Bailey’s article, it was argued that silver khamsiya coins of Qasimid Yemen (Fig. 1) found (increasingly, it seems) in North America—particularly in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island—are directly connected to the English pirate Henry Every and his crew after their plunder of the Mughal treasure ship Ganj-i-Sawai in 1695.
Figure 1. Qasimid silver khamsiya of al-Hadi Muhammad III dated AH 1105 (AD 1693/4) similar to coins found in…
This past week, between December 1 and 5, the Third International Convention of Historians and Numismatists (Cartagena MMXXI) gathered in…
If you have not read Part I of this two-part series and would like to do so, please click here.
As…
The American Numismatic Society is proud to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) program.
Every month the ANS will release 4–10 out-of-print…
Fig. 1. Athens. New Style tetradrachm with monogram interpreted as ΜΑΡΚΟΥ (Lucullus)/ ΤΑΜΙΟΥ. Thompson 1313. ANS 2015.20.871 (bequest of R….
Fig. 1. So-called “Sulla,” a copy (probably from the time of Augustus) after a portrait of an important Roman from…
James M. Collier, self-portrait after Memling (2006).
In 2020, Carole Anne Menzi Collier established the Collier Prize in Ancient Numismatics at…
by Ellen Nye and David Yoon
In August 2018, as Turkey faced a currency crisis, its president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called…
As one of the leading international centers of numismatic research, it’s no surprise that the stories coins tell about the…
Louis Saint-Gaudens, by his wife Annetta (Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park).
We have over 160 years of records in the Society’s archives,…
by Alice Sharpless and Lucia Carbone
This blog post accompanies the second release of data for the RRDP Project. You can…
This last summer an email message to the ANS Curatorial Department requested that an attempt be made to use the…