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Videos created by the American Numismatic Society

Long Table 130. Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649
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Long Table 130. Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649

Join ANS Curator Jesse Kraft to discuss the Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649. This seemingly small scandal had international repercussions on global trade, people’s trust of money, and monetary circulation patterns for decades. Evidence shows that this even had direct influence on the numismatic history of the British North American colonies.

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Long Table 129. Pompey's Propaganda against Caesar
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Long Table 129. Pompey's Propaganda against Caesar

Join ANS Fellow and Roman specialist Ben Lee Damsky for a look into Pompey’s anti-Caesar propaganda. This denarius was struck by…

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Long Table 128. New Medieval Coin Finds from the Area...
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Long Table 128. New Medieval Coin Finds from the Area Of Phoinike in Southern Albania

Join Julian Baker of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as he considers new numismatic data from southern Albania. Two…

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Long Table 126. The Lost Splendor of the Empire: The...
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Long Table 126. The Lost Splendor of the Empire: The Roman Gold Coin Finds from Eastern Europe

Join Dr. Kyrylo Myzgin of the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) and the Centre…

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Long Table 124. Coins for a Safe passage? Coin Deposits...
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Long Table 124. Coins for a Safe passage? Coin Deposits near the River Aa (Netherlands) and the Votive Act in Antiquity

In 2017, two metal detectorists, the brothers van Schaijk, found four denarii and almost a hundred Roman bronze coins…

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Long Table 123. Richard Norton’s Ill-fated Excavations at Cyrene and...
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Long Table 123. Richard Norton’s Ill-fated Excavations at Cyrene and his Coins at the ANS

In the midst of the Second World War, the ANS received two substantial donations totaling together over 600 coins….

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Long Table 122. Banknotes and the Paradox of Private Monetary...
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Long Table 122. Banknotes and the Paradox of Private Monetary Sovereignty in the Antebellum US

Bank notes, issued by banks with (and often without) state charters, quickly became a ubiquitous money medium in the…

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Long Table 121. Today’s Art Medal—From Decoration to Handheld Sculpture
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Long Table 121. Today’s Art Medal—From Decoration to Handheld Sculpture

ANS Fellow Donald Scarinci will present on the development of the contemporary art medal, focusing his discussion from the…

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Long Table 120. Salton Medals at the Metropolitan Museum of...
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Long Table 120. Salton Medals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Join Denise Allen, Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department and…

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Slave Badges and Dog Tags: Personal Artifacts of Enslaved and...
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Slave Badges and Dog Tags: Personal Artifacts of Enslaved and Free African-Americans Before 1865

2022 Stack Family Lecture on American Numismatics:

In the whole realm of material culture, very few objects can be…

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Long Table 119. Coins, Collectors, and Collections: An Introduction to...
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Long Table 119. Coins, Collectors, and Collections: An Introduction to Swedish Numismatics

The images on coins minted under the Roman Empire conveyed messages about the emperor, his achievements, and benefactions. Yet,…

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Long Table 118. Interacting with Iconography under the Roman Empire
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Long Table 118. Interacting with Iconography under the Roman Empire

The images on coins minted under the Roman Empire conveyed messages about the emperor, his achievements, and benefactions. Yet,…

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