Pocket Change
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A new study, published by Paul N. Pearson et al. last week in Plos One, has made a sensation in global news by claiming to have authenticated several unusual gold coins in the Hunterian Museum collection in Glasgow which seem to feature an otherwise unknown Roman emperor Sponsianus. The coins, which numismatists have long believed to be early 18th-century forgeries, include two gold coins naming the Roman emperor Philip I or II, another naming Gordian III, and a fourth naming a Sponsianus, who is known only from a few examples of this coin type (Fig. 1).
Figure 1. Gold coin…
ANS President Edward T. Newell and his rabbit review the contents of a volume of the American Journal of Numismatics.
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The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the publication The Early Betts Medal Companion: Medals of America’s Discovery…
Dr. Waleed Ziad is Assistant Professor and Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at…
The newest Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) data release includes seven control-marked issues which are part of the subset of…
As numismatists, we know that coins have many, many functions and characteristics. Some of those are inherent from the time…
Forty-six silver tetradrachms, 44 of them forming a hoard, were discovered in the unusual context of a mass grave,…
Join Professor David Berikashvili from the Department of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Art at the University of Georgia, Tbilisi, for…
Join Richard Cacchione-Amendola, co-founder and Vice President of the Instituto de Investigación Numismática in Lima (IIN), for a look…
Something we are asked from time to time is how much a past coin was worth in terms of present-day…
Associate Member Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi returns for this week’s Long Table on professional conservation and treatment of ancient coins. Like…
Dr. T. Corey Brennan is a professor of Classics at Rutgers University. His newest book, published by Oxford University Press…
Last month, along with most of the ANS staff, I attended the International Numismatic Congress in Poland. It was a…