2009 ANS Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar

Schedule

Week One: Numismatic Skills and Methodologies

Monday, June 8

• 10:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Tour (van Alfen)
• 1:00 Library Orientation (Hahn)
• 3:00 Digital Photography (Roche)
• 4:00 Numismatic Databases (Witschonke)

Tuesday, June 9

• 10:00 How to Describe a Coin (Meadows)
• 1:00 Stylistic Analysis (van Alfen)
• 3:00 ANS Coin Vault Tour (van Alfen)

Wednesday, June 10

• 10:00 Advisor Assignments and Meetings
• 2:00 Numismatics: The Shape of the Discipline (Meadows)

Thursday, June 11

• 10:00 Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage (van Alfen)
• 1:00 Die Studies (Witschonke)
• 3:00 Coin Exercise 1 assignment

Friday, June 12

• 10:00 Why Coinage? (van Alfen)
• 2:00 Hellenistic Coinages (Meadows)

Week Two: Introductions to Coinages and Monetary Systems

Monday, June 15

• 10:00 History of the ANS (Ciccone)
• 2:00 Metrology and Weight Standards (Meadows)

Tuesday, June 16

• 10:00 Coinage and Ancient Economies (van Alfen)
• 2:00 Roman Republican Coinage (Witschonke)
• 3:30 Welcoming Party and Photos

Wednesday, June 17

• 10:00 Roman Imperial and Provincial Coinage (Kremydi)
• 1:00 Byzantine Coinage (Stolyarik)
• 3:00 Medieval Coinage (Hoge)

Thursday, June 18

• 1:00 Islamic Coinage (Bates)
• 3:00 Modern and American Coinage (Hoge)

Friday, June 19

• 10:00 Hoard Studies (Witschonke)
• 2:00 Coin Exercise 1 presentations
• 3:00 Advisor Meetings/Select Research Topics

Week Three: Special Topics

Monday, June 22

• 10:00 Cistophoric Coinage (Witschonke)
• 2:00 Countermarked Coinage (Kleeberg)

Tuesday, June 23

• 10:00 Legal and Ethical Issues in Numismatics (Witschonke),

Wednesday, June 24

• 10:00 19th & 20th c. Medals (van Alfen)
• 2:00 Coins and Archeology: Hoards and Single Finds (Abdy)

Thursday, June 25

• 10:00 Roman Provincial Coinage and the RPC Project (Amandry)
• 2:00 The Creation of RPC IV (Yarrow)
• 5:30 The Harry W. Fowler Memorial Lecture: Hadrian's Coins: Voyages, Commemorations and Celebrations (Abdy)

Friday, June 26

• 10:00 Pausanias' Visit to Corinth (Amandry)
• 2:00 Coin Exercise 2 Presentation
• 3:00 Group Discussion

Week Four: Special Topics

Monday, June 29

• 10:00 The Ship in Circus Coins of Septimius Severus (Lee)
• 2:00 Regionalism in the Imperial Coinage of Asia Minor (Metcalf)

Tuesday, June 30

• 10:00 Money Before Machinery (Bates)

Wednesday, July 1

Thursday, July 2

• 10:00 Metalurgical Analysis of Coins (Keyser)
• 1:00 Advisor Meetings
• 3:00 Coin Exercise 3 Presentation

Friday, July 3

• ANS Closed

Week Five: Midterm

Monday, July 6

• 10:00 The Macedonian Kingdom: An Overview of the Coinage (Kremydi)
• 2:00 Coin Forgery (Hoge)

Tuesday, July 7

• 10:00 The Macedonian Koinon of the Hellenistic Period: The Institution and its Coinage (Kremydi)

Wednesday, July 8

• 10:00 Roman Colonies in Macedonia and Achaia (Kremydi)
• 2:00 Overview of Biblical Numismatics (Hendin)

Thursday, July 9

• 12:00 Coins from Alexandria (Meadows)
• 2:00 Renaissance Coin Collecting and the Origins of the Portrait Medal (Scher)

Friday, July 10

• 2:00 Interim Reports, Annotated Bibliographies due
• 5:30 New York Numismatic Club Meeting (Kremydi)

Week Six: Projects

Tuesday, July 14

• 10:00 Tour of Federal Reserve and Lower Manhattan (van Alfen)

Wednesday, July 15

• 7:00 Visit to Classical Numismatic Group

Thursday, July 16

Friday, July 17

• 3:00 Group Discussion

Week Seven: Projects

Monday, July 20

Thursday, July 23

Friday, July 24

• 10:00 Publishing Excavation Coins (Evans)
• 3:00 Group Discussion

Week Eight: Final Presentations

Wednesday, July 29

• 10:00 Student Presentations

Thursday, July 30

• 1:00 Student Presentations