American Numismatic Society Archives

The Planchet Podcast Episode 3 Now Available

June 1, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has released its third episode of The Planchet, their new-for-2020 podcast. This month’s podcast is titled White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage and covers early electrum coinage. For those who don’t know what Electrum Coinage is exactly, it is Electrum coinage is known as the worlds first coins and ranged from lumps of electrum with no design to intricately designed animals like the popular lion on the obverse side with an incuse punch created …

ANS Money Talks Series – Currency with Consequences: Circulating Counterfeits in the United States

May 27, 2020May 26, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has posted the latest episode in the Money Talks lecture series on YouTube. The newest talk is titled Currency with Consequences: Circulating Counterfeits in the United States and, as the name suggests, discusses counterfeit coins that are circulated here in the United States. Counterfeits in our national coinage – indeed, virtually every country’s coinage – is not new, and the history of it and the detection of those coins is …

ANS Announces Update to The Online Coins of the Roman Empire

May 7, 2020 by Clinton

The following announcement comes from the American Numismatic Society (ANS). It shares that the Online Coins of the Roman Empire, or OCRE), is being updated to reflect the latest edition of the Roman Imperial Coinage corpus. The update brings new information about coin finds, corrections of old errors, and more details around dating. Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) is the definitive corpus of coins issued under the Roman Empire. This 10-volume typology spans 460 years of Roman …

American Numismatic Society Launches CoinHoards.org Site

May 5, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society has announced on their blog the launch of a new site, CoinHoards. The site is a research tool for ancient Greek numismatics and ancient economies. It provides primary data and other information on 2,387 hoards of coins produced by Greeks and other non-Roman peoples between circa 650 and 30 BCE. The American Numismatic Society is pleased to announce the launch of CoinHoards, a new web-based, linked open data tool for research in …

ANS Announces An Important Update to Ptolemaic Coins Online

April 28, 2020 by Clinton

The following is a Press Release from the American Numismatic Society (ANS) on an important update to the Ptolemaic Coins Online catalog. The research tool, founded in 2018, has added over 550 new samples to the catalog in the latest update. In 2018, the ANS launched Ptolemaic Coins Online (numismatics.org/pco) as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project. Ptolemaic Coins Online (PCO) is a new research tool that will ultimately …

Latest ANS Podcast Now Available

April 22, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has issued the second episode of its podcast, The Planchet. The ANS podcast can be found on virtually every podcast service including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Pocket Cast. It is free and available to everyone, even if you are not an ANS Member. You can also play it via a web player directly from the ANS site. The second episode of The Planchet features guests Dr. Lucia Carbone, Assistant Curator for Roman …

ANS Releases Latest Money Talks Lecture on YouTube

April 9, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has published the latest Money Talks lecture on their YouTube Channel. The lecture, open to ANS members, was held online for the first time last month due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Normally the lecture series is hosted at the ANS’ New York offices. The lecture was recorded and published to the Society’s YouTube channel yesterday. In this particular lecture, Dr. Lucia Carbone discusses the coinage of Mark Antony and …

ANS Launches New Podcast, The Planchet

April 7, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society has launched a new podcast for Numismatist, The Planchet. The new podcast can be found on virtually every podcast service including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Pocket Cast. It is free and available to everyone, even if you are not an ANS Member. The inaugural episode of The Planchet features a conversation between Dr. Jesse Kraft, ANS Assistant Curator of the Coins and Currency of the Americas, and Dr. Andrew Reinhard, ANS Director …

The American Numismatic Society announces a new updated version of PELLA COINAGE OF THE MACEDONIAN KINGS OF THE ARGEAD DYNASTY

March 24, 2020 by Clinton

The ANS is pleased to announce that an updated version of PELLA (numismatics.org/pella) has now been launched. As a component of the National Endowment of the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PELLA is an innovative research tool aiming, among other things, to provide a comprehensive typology and catalog of the coinages struck by the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (c. 700–310 BCE), arguably the most influential coinages of the ancient Greek world. Fueled …

The ANS Launches an Online Fundraising Campaign for OCRE

March 20, 2020 by Clinton

The following is a Press Release from the American Numismatic Society regarding the fundraising campaign launched to support the digital resource, Online Coins of the Roman Empire, or OCRE. The fundraising project, powered via gofundme, will go towards the efforts of maintaining and updating the OCRE database. The resource incorporates over 43,000 types of coins and more than 130,000 physical coins from more than 40 major public and private collections globally. Clinton, the editor of …