Pocket Change
Collectively branded as Pocket Change, the ANS publishes new content frequently on its blog, in The Planchet podcast, as well as videos. Back-issues of ANS Magazine are also available.
This week Pocket Change features new books from the ANS that you might have missed. Today, we highlight Martin Beckmann’s Faustina the Younger: Coinage, Portraits, and Public Image (Numismatic Studies 43), the follow-up to Diva Faustina.
The Roman empress Faustina the Younger, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and mother to at least eleven imperial children, including the future emperor Commodus, not only played a key role in Roman history of the 2nd century AD but also was the subject of almost unparalleled commemoration in visual media, especially sculpture and coinage, during her lifetime. This book examines the single largest surviving…
This week, the ANS continues to highlight new books you might have missed. Today features Syd Martin’s massive monograph and…
For the week of May 15, Pocket Change will highlight new books that you might have missed, starting with The…
Bronze As of Augustus, Nemausus, AD 10–14. ANS 1953.171.1600.
It has long been said that absence of evidence is not evidence…
Director of Data Science Ethan Gruber provides an introduction to some of the underlying technical principles of Nomisma.org, the…
by Alice Sharpless and Lucia Carbone
The purpose of control marks in Roman Republican coinage is not well understood. Beginning as…
John Kraljevich, ANS Fellow and researcher, takes a look into the pockets antebellum America. The diversity of the United…
When looked at through the numismatic lens, the Indian peace medals in the extensive collection of the American Numismatic Society…
ANS Archivist and Librarian David Hill discusses a few archival collections that document the nightmarish experiences of several Jewish…
ANS Chief Curator Dr. Peter van Alfen considers the various reasons that modern commentators suggest for the production of…
Although fundamental to our discipline, one of the most difficult skills to teach aspiring Roman numismatists is how to identify…
Charles Ira Bushnell had one of the top two or three coin collections in the United States in the nineteenth…
Marina Fischer, Curator of Numismatics at Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, speaks on the history of the museum and…