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.
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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Mark Antony: Rogue with Monetary Insight by Lucia Carbone
War, Cultural Property, and the Missing Coins of…
The 160th Annual General Meeting, 2017, of the American Numismatic Society, which includes presentations from the ANS’s President, Executive…
Fig. 1. Ben Bernanke. Commissioned and rejected by Time magazine for their 2009 “Person of the Year” cover. Later purchased…
Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans presents his latest research on the coinage of the Troad in the Hellenistic period, discussing how,…
Egyptian banknote, 25 piastres, 1978
The history of images depicted on Arab banknotes is a study of visualizing modern nationalism. Egypt,…
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…
The Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) recently honored two ANS books with awards at the 2017 Worlds Fair of Money:
Irritamenta: Numismatic…
By Fae Amiro
The empress Sabina is not a figure who is frequently given much attention, due in part to her…
By Tara Sewell-Lasater
Queen Berenice II ruled in Egypt during the period of 246 to 221 BCE as the wife of…
Figure 1. Chinese spade money, c. 770–475 BC (ANS 1937.179.14763).
The American Numismatic Society cabinet contains a remarkable collection of Chinese…
Several weeks ago, the ANS migrated an older, circa 2002 TEI ebook on the Taranto 1911 hoard, authored by John Kroll…
by Gregory Callaghan
One of the traditional lectures of the Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics is entitled “Cistophoric Mysteries.”…