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.
With close to a million objects in the American Numismatic Society’s collections, the curatorial team occasionally comes across items that are mysteries to us. This series will feature some of these objects in the hopes that the collective wisdom of our readers can help us to identify and learn more about them.
ANS, 2007.42.22
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This scalloped-edged badge or medal was found by an amateur archaeologist in fill removed from a building site in downtown Manhattan sewage sludge removed from drains by contractors in Midtown and lower Manhattan. It measures 48 mm or just under 2…
The introduction of the ‘greenback’ in 1861 marked a turning point in the history of American currency. Greenback was the colloquial…
This week, the American Numismatic Society uploaded images of its 100,000th object into our online database MANTIS. The lucky coin was an…
Coins and video games were connected for the first time with the arrival of Computer Space (1971) and Pong (1972), the first…
The Irish-American printer John Dunlap of Philadelphia produced this broadside in 1778/1779 at the direction of John Gibson, the auditor general…
This video featured in the American Numismatic Society’s exhibition “Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money,” which ran at the New…
This is part an ongoing series that answers your questions about our collections. If there’s something you would like to know…
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The United States Sanitary Commission was a relief agency created to support soldiers that fought for the Union…
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Welcome CBS viewers! Thanks to producer Alan Golds and company for featuring the ANS in a great little segment about the penny…
The New York Public Library has launched a new website for its ample collection of digital images. There is a variety…