Pocket Change Blog
Pocket Change is the official blog of the American Numismatic Society.
Historians and poets alike have all had their say about the quirks of the personality, reign, and life of the Roman emperor Julian (331–363 CE). To the late eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon, in his much-cited Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Julian was a doomed tragic hero; to the early twentieth-century poet C. P. Cavafy, he was snide, sharp, and cowardly; today, many contemporary scholars note how Julian snubbed what he saw as newfangled “takes” on conventional wisdom. Julian’s life is one that is at once well documented and widely studied, but, interestingly, poorly known to the general public….
August 22, 2022
The Numismatic Literary Guild honored the ANS with 8 awards at the recent American Numismatic Association 2022 World’s…
The discovery of vast amounts of gold in California upset the ratio between gold and silver, to the point where…
Another batch of Roman Republican issues is now available through RRDP! The new release has brought the total number of…
Join Andrew M. Burnett Assistant Curator of Roman Numismatics Dr. Lucia Carbone for the second half of her talk…
Caesar was exceedingly fond of his sister,who was, as the saying is, a wonder of a woman.
(Plutarch, Life of Antony…
Join Antonello Mastronardi, PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Michigan and current intern at the ANS, as he…
Before the development of modern technologies like steamships and the railroad, travel and transportation were very significant limiting factors for…
While studying iconography on coins is a major pillar of ancient numismatics, it has been curiously ignored for modern…
with Dr. Jérôme Jambu (Université de Lille)
In the collective imagination, pirates are inseparable from their treasure chests filled…
Dr. Lucia Carbone the Andrew M. Burnett Assistant Curator of Roman Numismatics, will discuss the appearance of portraits of…
By Jérôme Jambu, Visiting Professor, Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics. Professor of Modern History, University of Lille…