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.
In a previous installment we looked at the under-appreciated and underutilized leaden riches of the ANS cabinet. In truth, however, the lead coins are probably better known to many collectors and scholars than the Society’s holdings of terracotta and porcelain coins. Yes, that’s right. The same materials and processes used to make your floor tiles, your teacup, and your toilet have at various times been used to make money or monetiform objects.
The oldest example—and my personal favorite—in the collection is a remarkable terracotta “elephant stater” of Seleucus I Nicator (312–281 BC) (Fig. 1).
Figure 1. Silver “elephant stater” (tetradrachm) of Seleucus…
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Gateway to the World, Corner of Nowhere: Provence in the Merovingian Period by David Yoon
Saint Joan of the…
Michael Alram received the 2016 recipient of the Archer M. Huntington Award in recognition of outstanding career contributions to…
ANS photographer Alan Roche created the short video below to describe the “focus-stacking” photographic technique to produce high-definition, 3D-like…
John Reilly’s membership certificate for the Yokohama Numismatic Society, signed by Ramsden
There are certain numismatic personalities I expect to encounter over and…
By Taylor Hartley
Since last November I have been working on a project here at the ANS to catalogue a group…
Poking around in the ANS’s Farran Zerbe correspondence last week, I stumbled onto a couple of letters on a topic that…
George Kolbe of Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers had an interesting question regarding my most recent column in ANS Magazine (“Bumps in the Road…
by Elizabeth Hahn Benge, former ANS Librarian
Truer words could not be said by someone with a passion for ancient history, especially…
On April 12, Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans of Oxford University delivered the 2016 Harry W. Fowler Memorial Lecture, “Imperialism and…
Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society (ANS), the Newman Portal now features the Colonial Newsletter (CNL) from 1960 to 2015…
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Banknotes of the Imperial Bank of Persia by Michael E. Bonine and Jere L. Bacharach
Et Tu, Brute? Brutus…
In the last few weeks, I have been preparing a gift of my personal coin collection to the American Numismatic…