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 Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) is looking forward to its conference next month, Coins, Counting, and Community. Exploring Deep Data from the Roman Republican Die Project, to be held on 9-11 April at the American Academy in Rome (AAR). This conference celebrates the work of Richard Schaefer, who has compiled a significant archive of over 300,000 images of Roman republican coins that he identified by die. While Schaefer’s materials are now publicly available through ARCHER, the American Numismatic Society’s archival database, RRDP aims to make his work accessible to researchers through a searchable, linked open data die database (RRDP)…
While many of the cards show banknotes and stamps, others have only engraved illustrations, or vignettes. This one (B-230) was…
Love was in the air last week with the celebration of Valentine’s day. In the Roman world, Venus was the…
One of the essential methods of numismatics is the die study. This involves comparing coins carefully, to see whether similar…
Several ANS staff members attended the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and Society for Classical…
The American Numismatic Society has recently acquired a fascinating 1880 counterfeit five-dollar bill—four decades after turning it away.
Fig. 1: 1880…
Figure 1. A packed crowd gathered for the Stack Family Lecture at the ANS on December 5, 2024.
On December 5,…
I recently came across a listing for a small, 28 mm brass medal I had seen many times but never…
Figure 1. Leonard Augsburger, Joseph Menna, Thomas J. Uram, and Ventris C. Gibson unveil a new graveside memorial headstone for…
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, over 300 ancient and historic coins were donated to the College…
Thanks to the Circolo Numismatico Ticinese, a symposium on the Roman imperial coinage of Alexandria took place in Lugano on…
In ancient Sicilian coinage, coin types representing war were common. Mariangela Puglisi (Associate Professor of Numismatics at DiCAM – University of…
Figure 1. Electrum stater of Aulerci Cenomani depicting multiple, connected heads on the obverse and charioteer, human-headed horse, and winged…