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You don’t have to go to a numismatic conference or wait for the International Numismatic Congress to hear about a diverse range of current topics in numismatic research. The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and Society for Classical Studies (SCS) is one of the largest international conferences where historians, art historians, and archaeologists specialized in Mediterranean civilizations gather each January. Numismatics has long been a topic featured in various panels at the AIA/SCS meetings, but this last meeting, held in Chicago from January 4-7, 2024, particularly offered much excitement for those working on or with…
The Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics at the ANS, Lucia Carbone, will discuss Local Coinages in…
by Scott H. Miller
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Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Arnaud Suspène (Université d’Orléans) will present their analysis of a large data set of Roman and…
Figure 1. All of the participants of ICOMON 2023 pose at a grand staircase in Bank Negara Malaysia, the hosts…
Sam Moorhead, who recently retired as the National Finds Adviser for Ancient Coins in the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) at…
As a number of previous posts in this blog have mentioned, some of the best opportunities to see objects from…
Every major coin collection possesses a collection of forgeries. Bernhard Weisser (Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) will present the coin dies…
The Franco-American Castorland Jeton, engraved by the famous French Mint Master, Benjamin Duvier, is one of the most beautiful…
Another batch of control-marked denarii has recently been added to the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) database. The new RRC…
Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873) was one of the most important and prominent collectors of ancient coins of his time….
Figure 1. Mysia, Pergamum. C. Fabius M.f. Hadrianus, Proconsul. 57–56 BC. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm. Demeas, magistrate. Obv. Cista mystica within…