American Numismatic Society Archives

Money Talks: An Introduction To The State Coinages Of The Confederation, 1785 – 1788

July 2, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has announced the nes\xt Money Talk lecture will take place on July 18, 2020. The lecture is titled An Introduction To The State Coinages Of The Confederation, 1785 – 1788 and will be held via video conference for ANS members. Under the Articles of Confederation, the rights of the individual states to coin money was recognized. The states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey took advantage and passed legislation authorizing …

The Planchet Podcast Episode 4 Now Available

July 2, 2020 by Clinton

The Planchet Podcast by The American Numismatic Society

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has released episode 4 of their new podcast, The Planchet. Episode 4 is titled A Brief History of Women Coin Collectors and it looks back at five key women collectors throughout the 15th to the 20th centuries. The fourth episode of The Planchet features guest Mary Lannin talking about five notable women coin collectors from the 15th to the 20th centuries, and the state of the field in 2020: Isabella d’Este, Comtesse Martine de …

ANS – Important Update to OCRE

June 10, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has released the follow Press Release regarding the Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) digital resource. The update now includes the latest volume of the Spink’s authoritative series. The ANS has recently launched an update to its Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) digital corpus. This update, months in the making, incorporates the newly published volume of Spink’s authoritative series, Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) into OCRE. Published in …

ANS Money Talks Series – What’s New At The Newman Portal?

June 9, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has announced that the next lecture in the Money Talks lecture series will be held on June 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific. The lecture will be covering updates that have been taking place in the Newman Portal. The Newman Numismatic Portal is an online numismatic library that holds over 40,000 items. This presentation will provide an overview of the collection and in particular discuss activities at the ANS library. …

American Numismatic Society Launches Mid-Year Appeal

June 1, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society has launched its mid-year appeal for 2020. The fund raising effort is to help continue the work of the society throughout the rest of 2020. Donations to the ANS are tax deductible and help go towards the various projects and general funds needed to run the organization. May 2020 Dear Friend, All of us at the ANS are profoundly appreciative of your steadfast dedication to this wonderful institution, and never more …

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 …