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.
Austin Goodwin Andrews
Valentine’s Day greeting cards popularly depict archer babies with wings as symbols of romance. This strange iconography ultimately derives from representations of Eros, the god of desire, who is typically featured as a winged, weapon-wielding baby or small child in ancient Greek and Roman art and literature. This motif appears on a number of so-called “magical” engraved gemstones held in the collection of the American Numismatic Society.
Figure 1. Green jasper intaglio amulet, second century CE, 17 mm x 12.5 mm. Obverse: Eros bound to a column with Nemesis in the guise of a griffin seated on its capital…
From the 1853 New York Crystal Palace Industrial Exposition of All Nations through the 1964 New York World’s Fair,…
Detail from Celestia envelope (ANS Archives).
We received some interesting documents for the ANS Archives along with some numismatic items donated…
In the first of a three-part series that will explore the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial…
Guests attend the cocktail hour.
On Thursday, January 11, 2024, more than 150 friends of the American Numismatic Society (ANS)…
The 17th century saw an enormous increase in seaborne trade not just in the regions around Europe, but between…
Figure 1: Silver medal issued in 1629 commemorating the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet by the Dutch Admiral Piet…
Claudia Devoto (Università di Roma La Sapienza) will present her research on the coinage of Knossos, reviewing the coin…
You don’t have to go to a numismatic conference or wait for the International Numismatic Congress to hear about a…
The Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics at the ANS, Lucia Carbone, will discuss Local Coinages in…
by Scott H. Miller
Earlier this year, the news media widely reported issues that arose with tickets to concerts to be…
Among the founders of the United States, Benjamin Franklin can hardly be mentioned without conjuring some idea of American…
Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Arnaud Suspène (Université d’Orléans) will present their analysis of a large data set of Roman and…