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.

2017 Huntington Award to Roger Bland, "How Coin Finds are...
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2017 Huntington Award to Roger Bland, "How Coin Finds are Changing the Face of Roman Britain."

The 2017 recipient of the Archer M. Huntington Award, given in recognition of outstanding career contributions to numismatic scholarship, Dr. Roger Bland delivers the Sylvia Mani Hurter Memorial Lecture, entitled, “How coin finds are changing the face of Roman Britain: the contribution of the Portable Antiquities Scheme”.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) was created in England in 1997 to record archaeological material found by members of the public. Roger Bland retired in 2015 as Keeper of the Departments of Prehistory & Europe and Portable Antiquities & Treasure at the British Museum. He was formerly a curator in the Department…

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ANS Magazine 2017, Issue 3
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ANS Magazine 2017, Issue 3

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Mark Antony: Rogue with Monetary Insight by Lucia Carbone

War, Cultural Property, and the Missing Coins of…

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The 160th Annual General Meeting of the American Numismatic Society
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The 160th Annual General Meeting of the American Numismatic Society

The 160th Annual General Meeting, 2017, of the American Numismatic Society, which includes presentations from the ANS’s President, Executive…

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Artist Mark Wagner is Reinventing the US Dollar Bill
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Artist Mark Wagner is Reinventing the US Dollar Bill
By Peter van Alfen

Fig. 1. Ben Bernanke. Commissioned and rejected by Time magazine for their 2009 “Person of the Year” cover. Later purchased…

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Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans, "New Light on the Mint of Alexandreia...
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Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans, "New Light on the Mint of Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period"
By The American Numismatic Society

Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans presents his latest research on the coinage of the Troad in the Hellenistic period, discussing how,…

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Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Egypt’s Reawakening As Seen on a Banknote
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Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Egypt’s Reawakening As Seen on a Banknote
By The American Numismatic Society

Egyptian banknote, 25 piastres, 1978

The history of images depicted on Arab banknotes is a study of visualizing modern nationalism. Egypt,…

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Depiction of Fire-Altars(?) on Arsacid Coinage
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Depiction of Fire-Altars(?) on Arsacid Coinage
By The American Numismatic Society

By Alireza Khounani

Fig. 1. Arsacid bronze coin, Ecbatana, 10–38 CE (ANS 1944.100.83104).

The Arsacid Empire (248 BCE–224 CE) spanned the…

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Two ANS Books Honored with 2017 NLG Awards
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Two ANS Books Honored with 2017 NLG Awards
By The American Numismatic Society

The Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) recently honored two ANS books with awards at the 2017 Worlds Fair of Money:

Irritamenta: Numismatic…

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The Coin Portrait Types of the Empress Sabina
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The Coin Portrait Types of the Empress Sabina
By The American Numismatic Society

By Fae Amiro

The empress Sabina is not a figure who is frequently given much attention, due in part to her…

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The Coinage of Queen Berenice II
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The Coinage of Queen Berenice II
By The American Numismatic Society

By Tara Sewell-Lasater

Queen Berenice II ruled in Egypt during the period of 246 to 221 BCE as the wife of…

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Cash and Carry
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Cash and Carry
By Oliver Hoover

Figure 1. Chinese spade money, c. 770–475 BC (ANS 1937.179.14763).

The American Numismatic Society cabinet contains a remarkable collection of Chinese…

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First Digital Object Identifiers Minted for ANS Digital Library Items
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First Digital Object Identifiers Minted for ANS Digital Library Items
By Ethan Gruber

Several weeks ago, the ANS migrated an older, circa 2002 TEI ebook on the Taranto 1911 hoard, authored by John Kroll…

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Cistophoric Mysteries of Laodiceia-ad-Lycum
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Cistophoric Mysteries of Laodiceia-ad-Lycum
By The American Numismatic Society

by Gregory Callaghan

One of the traditional lectures of the Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics is entitled “Cistophoric Mysteries.”…

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