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.
For the week of May 15, Pocket Change will highlight new books that you might have missed, starting with The Early Antigonids: Coinage, Money, and Economy, vol. 37 of the Numismatic Studies series.
This systematic analysis of the gold and silver coinages of “King Antigonos” is intended to explore the nature of the Antigonid cash economy during the second and the third quarter of the third century BC. The author’s principal aim in reconstructing the precious metal coinage of “King Antigonos” is to comprehend the way in which the mints concerned functioned and to identify the major issues of the period….
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…
The Dead Zone was a popular science fiction thriller written by Stephen King in 1979 that was made into a…
Season 3 of The Planchet podcast begins with a wide-ranging interview with Shanna Schmidt of Shanna Schmidt Numismatics. Since 2019,…