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.
I was talking with ANS fellow Scott Miller recently and mentioned to him an article I was working on about Bauman Belden, who was the Society’s secretary and librarian before being named director in 1908, one of the ANS’s first paid positions. Scott referred to a bronze plaque depicting Belden hanging in our Sage room. What?! This was news to me, though I have sat underneath that portrait many times. In my defense, Belden’s name doesn’t appear on the plaque. But the artist’s name does: A. Weinert.
Albert Weinert, 1914
Albert Weinert (1863–1947) was a German-born sculptor who came to the United…
After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar in Numismatics returned in 2022 for…
When surrounded by as many objects as exist within the hallowed halls of an institution like the American Numismatic Society,…
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Join Associate Member Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi for this week’s Long Table on professional conservation and treatment of ancient coins. A…
Engraving of a Higley Copper from Sylvester S. Crosby’s The Early Coins of America (1875)
The grammatical first person singular has…
ANS Member Mike Markowitz is back for Coins of the Crusades. Between 1096 and 1291, Western Europeans fought a…
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The Newman Numismatic Portal has been active at the ANS since 2015 and has scanned a variety of material…
Being able to sample the metal in the very center of a high-value artefact, while dealing absolutely no damage…
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The American Numismatic Society launched its podcast, The Planchet, in 2020. Free to listen to online or via podcasting…
Season 3 of The Planchet podcast continues with a conversation with Len Augsburger, Executive Director of the Newman Numismatic Portal….
ANS Fellow and Roman specialist Ben Lee Damsky offers an explanation for a mysterious medallion of Antoninus Pius. Authorities…