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 Chinese Junk “Keying” (N. Currier, 1847) Hand-colored Lithograph | Met
The Keying was a three-masted Chinese trading junk that sailed from Hong Kong in December 1847 with a mixed crew of Chinese and British sailors. The vessel had been purchased surreptitiously by a conglomerate of enterprising English businessmen. It was placed under the command of Captain Alfred Kellett with the intention of carrying curiosities and merchandise to England and thereafter serving as a kind of floating museum. The avaricious Kellett neglected to tell the Chinese crew members that they were embarking on such an extended journey, and by the time the Keying…
John Camden Hotten (1832-1873) was one of the liveliest characters in British letters during the mid-nineteenth century. A bibliophile and…
Back in 2012 as the American Numismatic was preparing its “Signs of Inflation” exhibition, we came to realize that the…
Historians of the United States have traditionally shown little curiosity about American money in anything more than an abstract sense. In a…
Self-Portrait (1887) Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on this date in 1853 near Breda in the…
This is the first in a new monthly series of short films that will explore some of the more intriguing…
Last evening was the opening for a new exhibition called “When the Curtain Never Comes Down” at the American Folk…
With close to a million objects in the American Numismatic Society’s collections, the curatorial team occasionally comes across items that…
This post is part of an ongoing series that seeks to answer your questions about our collections. If there’s something you would…
Following on my post last week about the campaign to replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill, Gail Collins had a…
In case you missed it the first time around, here is a short film about the American Numismatic Society.
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Last week, I was quoted by the New Yorker in a piece on the campaign to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20…
Last week the ANS was visited by Hilary Becker, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University…