Publications

All members of the Society receive as a perquisite of membership the Society's journal, the American Journal of Numismatics, the quarterly ANSNewsletter, and the Annual Report. In addition, members are eligible to enter a Publications Subscription annually to receive publications issued in the following series: Numismatic Notes and Monographs, Numismatic Studies, Numismatic Literature, Ancient Coins in North American Collections, and the proceedings of the annual Coinage of the Americas Conference. All Society publications including its Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum series are also available for purchase individually and Numismatic Literature, the semiannual abstract bibliography, is available on a separate subscription. A list of current publications in print is available on request.

Publications distributed to all members during the year included the Annual Report of the American Numismatic Society 1997 and four issues of the ANSNewsletter. Other publications that appeared during the year included America's Large Cent, COAC 12 (1996), ed. John M. Kleeberg, and the American Journal of Numismatics 9 (1997). Two issues of Numismatic Literature appeared during the year, 139 (March 1998) and 140 (September 1998). A total of 38 editors around the world presently contribute to the success of this bibliography of the current literature in the discipline. Numismatic Literature is available on a subscription basis for $10 per year or as a part of the annual Publications Subscription available to all members.

Additional publications currently in press are the American Journal of Numismatics 10 (1998), SNGANS Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins by Osmund Bopearachchi, and Silver Coinage with the Types of Aesillas the Quaestor (ANSNS '22) by Robert A. Bauslaugh. In preparation for publication in the near future are The Medal in America, COAC 13, ed. by Alan M. Stahl, the American Journal of Numismatics 11 (1999), and Hacksilber to Coinage: New Insights into the Monetary History of the Near East and Ancient Greece, ed. by Miriam S. Balmuth. Joint publications underway with other presses include Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal, ed. by Stephen K. Scher (expected in 1999) and Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages by Alan M. Stahl (expected in 2000).

The Colonial Newsletter

In the summer of 1996, the American Numismatic Society was honored by being selected as the continuing sponsor of The Colonial Newsletter by its retiring Editor, James C. Spilman. This journal, founded in 1960 by enthusiasts of early American and state coinages, was published under the able direction of Mr. Spilman ftom August 1963 through December 1996. During the first 36 years of its existence, this specialty publication has achieved the reputation as an excellent educational medium for communication among individuals interested in the numismatics of the period prior to the Federal Mint. In accepting this donation from the Colonial Newsletter Foundation, the Society's purpose is to maintain the same rigorous standards as establish by Mr. Spilman.


Publication under ANS auspices began with the April 1997 issue. The editorial staff, all volunteers, consists of Philip L. Mossman, Editor, Gary Trudgen and Michael Hodder, Associate Editors, and James Spilman, Editor Emeritus. Mr. Trudgen also serves as the production supervisor and as the liaison with the printer.

In all, three numbers of CNL appeared during 1998, continuing past practice. Current subscriptions have been opened to all ANS members in the conviction that a number of members not now familiar with CNL will come to enjoy and benefit from this fine publication. Back issues of the journal continue to be available directly from the CNL Foundation through Mr. Spilman. Cumulative indexes of CNL are available and the journal is also indexed as part of the "Numismatic Indexes Project" at the Society's website, www. amnumsoc .org.

Photography

The Society maintains a full-service Photography Department which supplies on request photographs of specimens in the ANS collection. The department also provides technical advice to scholars on various aspects of the specialized photography of numismatic material. During the period of the Graduate Seminar, the photographer provides formal instruction on photography to the students. Emphasis is placed on the varying conditions likely to be encountered by numismatic scholars photographing in the field.

During the past year, the department supplied materials for a variety of exhibition catalogues, articles, and research projects, both in black and white and in color. In addition it provided many color slides for staff, guest speakers, and customers to use in illustrating numismatic talks. The department also provided photography for special projects as well as the quarterly ANSNewsletter and this Annual Report. The department also regularly photographs all of the Society's acquisitions to establish a permanent record.

This past year new equipment has been installed to allow the photographer to move to a more advanced, accurate, and efficient system of reproduction. This procedure has been instituted in connection with curatorial orders for coin photography as well as for the images used in the Society publications such as the Newsletter and the Annual Report. By 1999 all half-tones will be scanned to disk and all objects will be reproduced as color slides which will then be electronically scanned and stored as digital images on disk. The final applications for each order will then be generated from the digitally stored images.

The Guide to Photographic Services is available on request and outlines current ordering procedures, photography rates, and the type of permission required for reproducing Society photographic property. A new Guide is expected early in 1999 to explain the new procedures and costs involved.

Slide Sets and Videos

The Society has a variety of slide sets available, designed primarily as visual aids to instruction in the fields of history and art history. Each set includes a number of slides depicting specific coinages and is accompanied by a booklet containing an illustration of each slide and descriptive commentary on the individual coins and their historical significance. The commentary is also designed to provide the basis for discussion in areas of specific interest.

Two audio-visual packages are available from the Society. Coinage of the Americas, containing a tape cassette and 41 color slides, traces the development of New World coinage from the period of Spanish exploration to the present day. Money in Early America, also comprising a tape cassette and 41 color slides, provides a survey of the use of money and money substitutes in Colonial America, the evolution of a paper money economy, and the development of federal responsibility for coinage.

The Society's Handbook series features attractively covered guides to areas of the collections with emphasis on readable text and ample illustration.

Handbooks are available separately or in a boxed deluxe edition which includes color slides depicting the objects described in the text. There are two Handbooks currently available, Islamic Coins by Michael L. Bates with 36 color slides and Massachusetts Silver Coinage by Anthony Terranova with 18 color slides.

In conjunction with the annual Coinage of the Americas Conference, the Society has produced slide booklets related to the conference theme. Five titles are now available: Die Varieties of the 1794 Large Cent by George E. Ewing, Jr. with 27 color slides; Confederate States of America Currency. 1861-1865 by Douglas B. Ball with 30 color slides; America's Silver Coinage, 1 794-1 891 by John W McCloskey with 36 color slides; The Coinage of the Viceroyalty of El Peru by Freeman Craig with 36 color slides; and America's Federal Gold Coinage, 1 793-1933 by John W McCloskey with 36 color slides.

At the May 4, 1991, Coinage of the Americas Conference, "Money of PreFederal America," all seven presentations were filmed and are available separately on VHS videocassertes. They include Richard G. Doty, "Making Money in Early Massachusetts"; Michael J. Hodder, "The Brasher Lima-Style Doubloon"; John M. Kleeberg, "The New Yorke in American Token"; Joseph R. Lasser, "Pennsylvania's Currency Signers, 1723-1785"; Philip Mossman, "Weight Analysis of Abel Buell's Connecticut Coppers"; Eric P Newman, "Unusual Printing Features in Early American Paper Money"; and Alan M. Stahl, "American Indian Peace Medals of the Colonial Period."

The ANS Photo File

The American Numismatic Society maintains a file of over 600,000 photographs culled from auction and sale catalogues. The bulk of the collection embraces Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins, but has recently been expanded to include all hammer-struck coinage, including Islamic and Medieval. The file is frequently consulted by scholars and collectors seeking to study coins in private collections or to trace the recent history of individual coins as they have passed through the trade. Current catalogues come from dealers throughout the world who generously provide copies in duplicate so the file can be kept up to date. We appreciate the concern and help of Society members who have donated out-of-print catalogues as well.

It has been a matter of on-going curatorial concern that the systematic capture of photo file images and information as well as the accessibility of the material be brought into the electronic age. Over the last several years a number of proposals have been created and submitted to get funding to change from "cut and paste" methodology to electronic scanning, storage, and retrieval. This will allow the department to enter the new millennium with a procedure in place. The objective is to allow new catalogues to be entered immediately into the system eliminating the current gap between receipt of catalogues and clipping and filing. Part of the current proposal includes ways to deal with the current backiog as well as digitalizing the existing files. As in the past, the photo file will continue to rely on the good will and active contributions of dealers who provide the Society with catalogues and on the help of members who bring missing materials to our attention and often supply needed out of print material.


Visitors

As in past years, many researchers from overseas visited the Society. They included V. Belayev (Moscow), Christof Boehringer (Gottingen), F. Carl Braun (Port-au-Prince), J. P. Divo (Zurich), Frederique Duyrat (Paris), David Erskine-Hill (London), Eurydice Georgantelis (London), Vera Guruijova (St. Petersburg), Silvia Hurter (Zurich), Haakon Ingvaldsen (Oslo), V. Maiorov (Moscow), Leo Mildenberg (Zurich), Shraga Qedar (Jerusalem), Nicholas Rhodes (Hythe), Achim Schramm (Zurich), Stanislaw Suchodolski (Warsaw), and Orestes H. Zervos (Corinth).

Many former summer seminar students also visited the Society. They included Barbara Baxter, Harry Bone, Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr., Alexis Castor, Sarah E.Cox, Touraj Daryee, Roger A. Hornsby, Kriszta Kotsis, John H. Kroll, Brooks Emmons Levy, Paul Legutko, Thomas R. Martin, Yorka Nikolaou, Faith Ford Sandstrom, Jennifer Sheridan, and James Todesca.

The ANS visiting scholar this year was Christopher Howgego of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Students at the Graduate Seminar were exposed to a full series of lectures on Roman provincial coinage. Particularly interesting were the numerous local cults which were quite different from the metropolitan versions, often creepily so, and many of the cult statues of Artemis were very other" in the Lacanian sense. Dr. Howgego's familiarity with modern criticism combined with his expertise on the provincial coinage made for a stimulating summer for both staff and students alike.
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Staff Activities

During the past year, Dr. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi gave a lecture to a group of tenth and eleventh graders from the Brearley School and to a group of fifth graders from the Bridge School, a public school in the Village. This is part of the curatorial outreach efforts to foster interest in coins and educate the public. In December 1997, in collaboration with Elena Stolyarik, she organized the exhibit: Masterpieces in Miniature: The John D. Leggett Collection of Coins from Greek Sicily in the American Numismatic Society at the New York International Numismatic Convention at the World Trade Center and wrote a detailed catalogue. This show was very successful because of the outstanding quality and rarity of the coins on display. She attended the ninety-ninth Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in conjunction with the American Philological Association in Chicago. On December 30, she served as moderator of the Colloquium: New Insights into the Transition from Hacksilber to Coinage, organized by ANS Fellow, Prof. Miriam S. Balmuth of Tufts University. The papers will be published by the ANS. With William E. Metcalf, she hosted the ANS Alumni Reception, an event always well attended. On February 28, she hosted the fifth Annual Day of the Etruscans at the ANS and discussed the exhibit of the ANS collection of Etruscan coins which she had put together with the help of Elena Stolyarik and Sarah Cox. In March she went to Europe to attend the presentation at the British Museum of the volume Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price, edited by Silvia Hurter and Richard Ashton to which she contributed. In Paris she participated in the celebration of Georges Le Rider's seventieth birthday at the College de France. She contributed to the volume of Melanges in his honor to be published by the end of the year. On September 13 in San Francisco, Arnold-Biucchi gave a paper on "Representations of the Zodiac in Thrace" at the conference Thracian Numismatics and Hoard Objects, sponsored by the ANS, the University of California at Berkeley, and the San Francisco Ancient Numismatic Society. On September 26, she organized and chaired the first Harry W Fowler Memorial Lecture and set up an exhibit of Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins from the Harry W Fowler bequest to the ANS with the help of Elena Stolyarik and Sarah Cox. The speaker was Prof. Frank L. Holt from the University of Houston, TX, who spoke on "Every Coin a Mystery: the Quest for Bactria." Arnold-Biucchi's publications included: "The Pergamene Mint under Lysimachos," in Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price, ed. R. Ashton and S. Hurter (Spink, London 1998), pp.#5-l5.

In Toronto in October Michael L. Bates lectured to the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto on "Iranian Coinage in the Seventh Century," an overview of the main Arab-Sasanian series. He spoke as a Research Associate of the Department, an appointment that has been renewed for 1998/9. The following month, at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Bates gave a paper "Khurasani Revolutionaries and al-Mahdi's Title" and chaired an ANS-sponsored panel, "Recent Studies in Islamic Numismatics," with papers by four Graduate Seminar alumni, Harry Bone, Marilyn Higbee Walker, Eric Hanne, and Warren Schultz. During the year Bates organized three seminars at the ANS for members and associates, including the third annual Arab-Byzantine Forum in November; a Colloquium on Chinese Cast Coinage in February, at which he spoke on "ANS Resources for Chinese Numismatics"; and a discussion group in May on The Coinage of the Eastern Mediterranean Countries in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, at which he gave a paper, "Ayyubid Silver Dirhams and Their Crusader Imitations: A Metrological and Metallurgical Study." Bates spent his research leave in Budapest, where he was able to use the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and, more importantly, work in isolation to finish an article on the accession of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim. On vacation in December, he spent a week in Oxford doing research at the Oriental Institute Library and the Ashmolean Museum, and during short visits to Toronto spent pleasant and productive hours at the Robarts Library of the University of Toronto. During the year, Bates's article "Islamic Art. Section 8, 2(i) Coins" appeared in The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 510-14, and a review of Martin Hinds's Studies in Early Islamic History appeared in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 1998.

Again this year, Executive Director Leslie A. Elam represented the ANS at the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, held in Philadelphia at the end of April, participating in the working sessions of the Conference of Administrative Officers. At the business meeting of the ACLS, he represented the Society in the absence of Society Delegate, Roger A. Hornsby, who was unable to attend. Prior to the ACLS meetings, Elam represented the ANS at the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance of which the Society is an associate member. The Fall 1997 meeting of the CAG took place in Houston and Elam took the opportunity to stop off in Dallas to visit with Harry Bass and meet with the trustees of the Harry Bass Foundation. To the great sorrow of the entire numismatic community, this esteemed past president of the ANS died on April 4, 1998. At the ANS Members Appreciation Day on July 18, his widow Doris Bass accepted the Society's Distinguished Volunteer Award on behalf of the Harry Bass Research Foundation and was presented with a specially bound edition of the book Harry W Bass Jr., Memories of His Life, compiled and edited by ANS Councillor Margo Russell and Elam. He continued as coordinator for the annual Coinage of the Americas Conference including the publication in September of the proceedings volume reporting the 1996 conference on America's Large Cent, edited by John M. Kleeberg, and produced entirely at the ANS in electronic format. On a personal note, Elam was honored on December 30, 1997, at a ceremonial dinner marking his retirement as Scoutmaster following twenty years of service in his local community. In September 1998 he and his wife Judi traveled to Chicago for the marriage of their son Jeff to Fraeda Friedman.

A very gratifying result of Dr. Kleeberg's plenary talk to the Berlin International Numismatic Congress was that he was asked to repeat it before the British Numismatic Society, which he did in London in February 1998. Before he could do the talk, however, he had to finish up his research about bullion flows between Britain, India, and China during the Napoleonic Wars, so he spent two weeks in December in London looking through the archives of the English East India Company. Kleeberg was also awarded a stipend by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel to do research there as that library has one of the best holdings of the Berliner Borsen-Zeitung, the leading srockmarket newspaper of Berlin. Kleeberg spent two months from April 15 to June 13 in Wolfenbuttel, taking extensive notes from the BBZ This proved to be a profitable year for completing research. In January he finished an article about the role of the pistareen, which appeared in the Colonial Newsletter. By the beginning of February he finished and submitted the text of his plenary talk for Berlin and later co-authored an article with Armando Bernardelli about the Gambellara hoard of cobs. In the summer he finished and submitted to AJN an article about the Hull, TX, hoard of double eagles.

Dr. Metcalf travelled to London in March for the annual meeting of the International Numismatic Commission. While there he was able to attend a reception in memory of Martin Price where his widow Maria Price was presented with a memorial volume Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price, edited by Richard Ashton and Silvia Hurter, in which Metcalf's essay "Aurelian's Reform at Alexandria" appeared on pp. 269-76. Metcalf returned to London in June for a reception in honor of Charles Hersh, who celebrated his 75th birthday. Metcalf contributed "The 'Am Tab Hoard (IGCH 1542)," to Coins of Macedonia and Rome: Essays in Honour of Charles Hersh, a festschrift edited by Andrew Burnett, Ute Warrenberg, and Richard Witschonke (pp. 59-65). His other publications during the year included "Notes on the Severan Coinage of Caesarea," in Nomismata 1. Historisch-numismatische Forschungen. Internationales Kolloquium zur kaiserzeitlichen Munzpragung Kleinasiens 27. -30. April 1994 in der Staatliche Munzsammlung, Munchen (Milan, 1997), pp. 173-80, and a review of U. Kampmann, Die Homoncia- Verbindungen der Stadt Pergamon, oder Der Versuch einter kleinasiatischen Stadt, unter romischen Heerschafi eigenstandige Politik zu betreiben (Saarbrucker Studien zur Archaologie und Aire Geschichte 10, Saarbrucken, 1996), SNR 76 (1997) pp. 281-283. He also contributed the first "Curator's Corner" to the Celator (March 1998). His schedule during the year included talks for the Village School students of Rhoda Schall, Brearley School students of Emily Silverman, Dalton School students of Jane Schapiro, John Jay High School students of Vi Patek, the New York Numismatic Club, and residents of the Jewish Home and Hospital. He also participated in a "boot camp" for entering graduate students at Columbia University, where his seminar on Roman numismatics began in September. He also discussed the coinage of Faustina I for Mount Holyoke College students of Bettina Bergmann and, with staff members ArnoldBiucchi and Stolyarik, participated in the third San Francisco Ancient Numismatic Conference in September. On a sadder note he spoke at the May 8 memorial service for Bluma L. Trell, a long-time member of the Society, at New York University. In March he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Osterreichische Numismatische Gesellschaft.

Much of the activity of Dr. Alan Stahl this past fall was in conjunction with the events comprising the "Celebration of the Medal," held at the ANS on the weekend of November 8-9. Stahl was in charge of three exhibits which opened that weekend: the traveling exhibit of the work of Gilroy Roberts organized by our sister institution the ANA and two separate exhibits of contemporary work by members of the American Medallic Sculpture Association and the British Art Medal Society. The contemporary exhibits were accompanied by a catalogue which he co-edited. The program for the week-end was a conference on "The Medal in America," which constituted this year's Coinage of the Americas Conference. Eight scholars gave papers on the art and history of the medal on Saturday, and Sunday was devoted to hands-on workshops on the techniques of medallic production. Stahl has edited the proceedings of the conference, which will appear in 1999 as The Medal in America, vol. 2, and will be no. 13 in the COAC proceedings series. In February Stahl curated an exhibit of work of Helder Batista to accompany the meeting in which the Portuguese medalist was presented with the Society's J. Sanford Saltus Award. Stahl devoted most of the rest of the winter to finishing work on two other books which are also scheduled for publication in 1999. His edition of two notarial protocols from fourteenth-century Crete from manuscripts in the Venetian archives is being published by Dumbarton Oaks and the Centro Ellenico di Venezia. His major history of the Venetian mint, Zecca; The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages, is in press with Johns Hopkins University Press and will be co-published by the American Numismatic Society. In March, Stahl participated in the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America at Stanford University and gave a paper entitled "Venetian Commerce in the Middle Ages; Feast or Famine?" at a conference at the University of Tubingen in Germany. In May he chaired a session he had organized at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University which included papers by Graduate Seminar alumni Martha Jenks, Kevin Uhalde, and Brian Klinzing. This year saw the publication of two of his articles in Garland Press's Medieval England; An Encyclopedia, "Coins and Coinage," pp. 201-3, and "Mints and Minting," pp. 517-18.

During the year Dr. Stolyarik assisted in the installation of three exhibits held in connection with the Coinage of the Americas Conference, a special exhibit of ANS coins bequeathed by John D. Leggett at the New York International Convention, the retrospective exhibit of Portuguese artist Helder Batista for the Saltus Award Meeting and a temporary exhibition of Chinese coins from the ANS collection. In addition to providing instruction in cast making, she delivered an introductory talk on Byzantine coinage to the Graduate Seminar. In March and April she wrote two articles about her studies of the Bosporan coinage for publication in the Proceedings of Berlin International Numismatic Congress and the American Journal of Numismatics. In September Stolyarik presented "Greeks and Barbarians on the Northwest Black Sea Littoral" at the Third Classical Numismatic Conference at the University of California, Berkeley.