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.
Everyone loves to find coins in unexpected places. There is always a certain thrill that comes from discovering those dropped coins on a city sidewalk or that loose change behind the couch cushions. The thrill is even greater when the find is more unusual or esoteric, like a bronze follis of Maurice Tiberius (AD 582–602) found cemented into a Byzantine wall when I worked at the site of Aphrodisias in the late 1990s, or an English East India Company pice found at an original Mormon settlement in Salt Lake Valley. Coins in strange places are great things. Nevertheless, it has…
Since repatriating the die shells of the Medallic Art Co. (MACO), organizing and cataloguing these pieces has become a curatorial…
For the 2022 ANS Gala in honor of David Hendin, we commissioned a short film by Pascal Perich that…
Representations of architecture on Roman coins have long been studied by scholars interested in retrieving information about ancient monuments,…
One of the more fascinating aspects of the American Numismatic Society’s eBay store are the numismatic stories that come with…
Figure 1. Mashiko and the American Medalists in Paris exhibit.
One of the joys of living in New York City is…
by Alice Sharpless
This blog post is a preliminary version of an article to be submitted for peer review. Comments and…
by Liv M. Yarrow and Alice Sharpless
This post announces the third data release from the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP)….
This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022. It seems like a…
December 28, 2021. I spend a lot of time thinking about the significance and intent behind certain images on ancient…
Charles Ira Bushnell
A couple of months ago, friend and fellow numismatic researcher Joel Orosz sent me a news clipping containing…
On April 9, 2021, Pocket Change hosted a post of mine that took issue with the popularization of a theory…
This past week, between December 1 and 5, the Third International Convention of Historians and Numismatists (Cartagena MMXXI) gathered in…