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 American Numismatic Society is proud to announce the publication of Wealth and Warfare: The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria, by Frédérique Duyrat. Syria has been the theater of one of the most barbarous wars of the last centuries, characterized by war crimes and persecution of civilians. Beyond the human aspect of this conflict, one of the distinctive features of the war in Syria has been the treatment of cultural heritage. It takes two different forms. The most obvious is the systematic destruction of historical artifacts and remains by ISIS, dubbed “cultural cleansing” by UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova. There…
The 159th Annual General Meeting of the American Numismatic Society, 2016, which includes presentations from the ANS’s President, Executive…
Dr. Andrew Burnett delivers the 2016 Mark M. Salton Memorial Lecture at the American Numismatic Society.
In this lecture,…
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The Medium is the Message: Non-Greek Scripts and Languages on Ancient Greek Coins by Oliver D. Hoover
Rediscovering…
By Ruben Post
Following the conquests of Alexander the Great (334–324 BCE), the many civic mints of the Greek world continued…
The Wavertree docked at New York City’s South Street Seaport. (Photo Wikimedia Commons)
As part of the revitalization of New York…
By Jeremy Simmons
For my ANS Seminar Project, I decided to look at silver coins of the Western Kṣatrapas, who ruled…
Several ANS publications were honored by the Numismatics Literary Guild (NLG) at the American Numismatic Association’s 2016 World’s Fair of Money…
By Xiaoyan Qi
Samarqand, named Kang (康) in Chinese sources, formed a tributary relationship with the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907). According to…
By Giuseppe Carlo Castellano
The indigenous inhabitants of Bronze and Iron Age Sicily exchanged bronze objects as a proto-monetary currency. Ingots,…
Dr. Elsbeth van der Wilt
For my ANS project I am looking at a metrological problem: the equivalencies in the written…
By Nathanael Andrade
Silver didrachm, Hierapolis Bambyce (ANS 1971.73.3)
For my project, I am doing a close study of the silver coins…
By Sam Caldis
Coins played a significant role in shaping the public image of the Roman imperial family. The majority of…