Programs: Collections:the society's collection of almost 810,000 coins and related objects is one of america's treasures. It abounds in both large study collections and great rarities, and is particularly strong in ancient greek, roman, islamic, far eastern, u. S. , and colonial coinages, as well as medallic art. In making this unsurpassed resource available for broad study in 2016, a great deal of curatorial energy was again directed toward our web-based projects, including the continuing development of our existing highly acclaimed digital tools:-pella: coinage of the kings of macedonia (pella) (http://numismatics. Org/pella/) [see continuation on schedule o]-sco: seleucid coins online (http://numismatics. Org/sco/)-online coins of the roman empire (ocre)(http://numismatics. Org/ocre/)-coinage of the roman republic online (crro) (http://numismatics. Org/crro/)-coin hoards of the roman republic (chrr) (http://numismatics. Org/chrr/)-art of devastation(aod)(http://numismatics. Org/aod/)-nomisma (http://nomisma. Org/)-inventory of greek coin hoards online (igch)(http://coinhoards. Org/)as most of these digital projects require high quality photography and precision cataloguing of thousands of objects in the ans collection, considerable attention was focused on again re-cataloguing and photographing collection objects. In recent months, the ans collection has benefitted from the acquisition of a variety of donated and purchased numismatic objects. Among these is an extremely generous gift of 187 visigothic coins to the medieval department from the edlow family fund inc. A very important group of 980 bronze coins of roman provincial spain and 801 medieval coins from castile and leon from the former collection of archer m. Huntington, sold by the hispanic society of america in 2012, has been received from the chairman of the ans board of trustees, kenneth l. Edlow. Some gaps in our holdings of roman provincial peloponnesian coins were filled by the generous donation of 24 coins from the remarkable bcd collection of coins, given to us by jonathan h. Kagan and ute wartenberg kagan. An important donation to our byzantine collection came from ans member dr. Spero j. Kinnas. It is a 4 pentanummia of justin ii (565578) produced in cherson (modern sevastopol, crimea peninsula, ukraine), heretofore lacking in our cabinet. The ans also acquired through gemini auction sale an important group of bronze coins from the roman provincial alexandria, donated to the art institute of chicago in 1978-1984 by robert l. Grover, and containing many pieces deriving from the giovanni dattari collection, the most complete collection of alexandrian coins ever assembled. Through generous gift from ans member kyle ponterio, our philippines collection have been enriched with an 1832-34 counterstamp of ferdinand vii of spain, on a peruvian 8 reales of 1832, from the former collection of the hispanic society of america. Long-time ans member and benefactor anthony terranova donated a pair of dies by victor david brenner, produced for a plaquette of charlotte may buffett smith in 1910. Mr. Terranova also donated a 24-carat gold commemorative medal of enrico caruso, produced by tiffany co. And donated by famous opera tenor to pasquale simonelli, caruso's new york impresario. Ans fellow and member of our sage society dr. Jay m. Galst donated a group of compelling medals dedicated to the solders blinded during world war i. The series of british art medal society (bams) medals continues to grow, and the ans purchased a group of 20 recent issues. We also acquired extremely rare circa 1848 brazilian morro velho gold mines silver slavery medal for good conduct and a rare argentinian copper-washed lead medal of around 1857, by pablo cataldi, which commemorates argentina's first president, bernardino rivadavia. A group of 917 mexican hatchas /aztec hoe money and a collection of 298 mexican war of independence copper 8 reales of 1913 for the latin american department generously donated by ans member donald canaparo. An exciting gift to our united states department is the american liberty 225th anniversary $100 gold coin of 2017, was generously donated by ans trustee mary n. Lannin. A group of bronze greek, byzantine and islamic coins was donated by ans trustee and emeritus professor dr. Jere l. Bacharach. Through stephen album rare coin inc. , the society acquired important examples of south and central asian coins from the former mondorf collection. Our generous benefector alan helms enriched ans collection of african tribal currency by new 52 remarkable items. Loans for exhibits in making this unsurpassed resource available for broad study, ans lends items to other institutions around the usa and the world. Objects from the society's collection continue to be in high demand as loans to other institutions for inclusion in exhibitions. Currently, 399 objects are out on loan to the permanent and temporary exhibitions. The group of 64 ans coins from the roman republican and imperial collection became an important contribution to the exhibition roman myths and myth-making, organized by the jundt art museum at conzaga university, in spokane, wa. The american philosophical society in philadelphia exhibited ans george washington oval peace medal and the thomas jefferson peace medal in three different sizes among the objects that demonstrate the voyage of the lewis and clark corps of discovery in the show entitled "gathering voices: thomas jefferson and native america". During january - april 2017, 117 medals were on view on a very successful show the art of devastation in the frances lehman loeb art center at vassar college in poughkeepsie, new york. The exhibit, organized in cooperation with ans curator peter van alfen, was coincided with the centennial of us involvement in the first world war. 39 coins were lent to the institute for the study of the american world (isaw) at nyu for spectacular new exhibit time and the cosmos in greco-roman antiquity. In march 23, 2017, an interesting exhibition called new york crystal palace 1853 opened at the bard graduate center in new york city. Five important objects from the ans were requested for this exhibition. On april 19, 2017, the museum of the american revolution was opened in downtown philadelphia. For their inaugural exhibition the museum requested the loan of 12 eighteenth-century medals from the ans. At the beginning of september an interesting exhibition called antinous, the emperor's beloved: investigating a roman portrait opens in the special exhibitions gallery at the san antonio museum of art in texas. The ans gladly provided for this special show our bronze coin of ad 238244 from berytus, featuring on the reverse a statue of dionysus in the same resting pose as the san antonio museum's marble portrait of antinous. Another ans coin of ad 134/135 from the cilician mint of tarsus (fig. 14) portrays antinous on the obverse, wearing a miniature hemhem crown, an egyptian decorative crown of a very elaborate form. Also in september a remarkable exhibit the arch of titus: from jerusalem to rome, and back was opened in the yeshiva university museum at the center for jewish history in new york. This exhibition explores the arch of titus in rome through its original and evolving cultural contexts. For this show the ans selected a group of 33 extremely valuable coins. Among the ancient judean coins in the exhibit is a peculiar example minted under mattathias antigonus (4037 bce), the last king and high priest of the maccabean dynasty. It bears a rare, albeit highly schematic, jewish visual expression of the form of the temple menorah and the table of the showbread that predate both the sack of the jerusalem temple and the construction of the arch of titus. Both the menorah and the table of the showbread are shown being carried by roman soldiers on the arch of titus bas-relief.
publications program:the ans is the preeminent publisher of numismatic material in the united states. Offerings include two scholarly journals, the american journal of numismatics and the journal of early american numismatics and the quarterly ans magazine, which presents regular columns from the society's various departments and contributions from individual curators. The ans publishes on average four new books a year on numismatic subjects, and has more than 50 currently in print. Two books were recognized with 2017 numismatic literary guild awards. [see continuation on schedule o]as part of the society's aggressive program for making its resources more broadly accessible, all publications are being offered in digital format as open access. Ans publications has twice been awarded a mellon foundation grant to pursue open access publication. Now that publications are available digitally, they may be linked to ans databases, as well as to historical, geographical, archaeological, and other data hosted by others to facilitate interdisciplinary, international research.
educational programs:since 1952 the ans has conducted a yearly summer graduate seminar in numismatics, one long regarded as among the premier training programs in the discipline. The seminar is fully endowed and is designed for students of history, art history, textual studies, and archaeology, with limited or no numismatic background, with the aim of familiarizing them with a body of evidence that is often overlooked and poorly understood. [see continuation on schedule o]over the years, the seminar has graduated more than 600 participants, many of whom now occupy key academic and curatorial positions at museums and private and state universities and colleges throughout the united states, as well as at universities in england, france, italy, greece, and turkey. The ans academic staff regularly lectures in the us and abroad to diverse audiences. In addition, the ans administers, on average, six internships a year in museum, library, and archival disciplines and organizes or hosts some half a dozen public lectures and conferences. The curatorial staff of the ans is actively engaged in scholarly research on material in the collection and in numismatics and economic history more broadly. Over the course of the last several years, the curatorial staff as a group has published an average of one book and fifteen articles and/or chapters in reputable academic venues in addition to presenting their research at conferences, colloquia, and workshops in the us and abroad. Since the found of the ans nearly 160 years ago, the institution has actively sought the best means possible for securing and organizing the collection physically, but also making the contents of the collection accessible to the public at large through publications and more recently digital cataloguing efforts. The ans is currently the leading numismatic institution in the world for developing comprehensive online research tools that highlight the collection holdings.
