ANS Fellow and Roman specialist Ben Lee Damsky offers an explanation for a mysterious medallion of Antoninus Pius. Authorities have disagreed as to the reverse figure, but the correct description improves our understanding of several other coin types, both Greek and Roman, and suggests the occasion for issuing the medallion.
In the second of a three-part series that explores the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial coinage…
The Royal Maundy is a historic ceremony with origins in the New Testament, held on the Thursday before Easter…
Excavations in Elaiussa Sebaste, an active mint from at least the beginning of the first century BCE to the…
