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Among the founders of the United States, Benjamin Franklin can hardly be mentioned without conjuring some idea of American money. Franklin was at the technological forefront of the novel paper money, devising innovative anti-counterfeiting measures and lobbying governments to expand the paper currency supply. As a printer, he literally made money for the colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and by the time he retired at age forty, he was one of the wealthiest men in colonial America. Florida State University Professor Edward Gray will tell Franklin’s rags-to-riches tale of a near-penniless indentured servant who rose to become America’s first great…
Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Arnaud Suspène (Université d’Orléans) will present their analysis of a large data set of Roman and…
Sam Moorhead, who recently retired as the National Finds Adviser for Ancient Coins in the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) at…
Every major coin collection possesses a collection of forgeries. Bernhard Weisser (Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) will present the coin dies…
The Franco-American Castorland Jeton, engraved by the famous French Mint Master, Benjamin Duvier, is one of the most beautiful…
Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873) was one of the most important and prominent collectors of ancient coins of his time….
The 166th Annual Meeting of the American Numismatic Society took place at our headquarters on Saturday, October 21. The…
The abstract nature of tokens means defining them can be a challenge, but parameters such as purpose and function…
Coinage from Cretan cities has long interested scholars due to the complexity of overstriking, countermarking, and changing weight standards…
Coinage is considered to be one of history’s major innovations. Eneko Hiriart (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at Bordeaux Montaigne…
On October 5, the ANS awarded the 2022 J. Sanford Saltus Award for Signal Achievement in the Art of…
Among the hundreds of civic mints in the Roman imperial provinces, Nicaea in Bithynia stands out for its unusually…