Season 2, Episode 3 features an interview with David Hendin, ANS Trustee and long-time friend, scholar, and collector. The 6th edition of his book, A Guide to Biblical Coins, will be published by the American Numismatic Society in the summer of 2021. In this episode, Hendin recalls how he began collecting and studying coins, offers some advice on cleaning (and not cleaning) ancient coins, shares some stories of his encounters with dealers in Jerusalem, and talks about what’s new in the latest edition of his Guide. Total Time: 46 minutes The Planchet is available wherever you get your pod ..read more

Season 2, Episode 2 does something never before attempted in exactly one year of the Planchet: it was recorded live and in-person in New York. Host Andrew Reinhard conducted brief interviews with seven ANS staff members to learn what it was like working from home as a curator, photographer, or librarian, how it felt coming back to the office for the first time after months away, and what current projects are underway as things approach a sense of “normal.” Each interview was conducted safely with masks at a physical distance of six feet. Total Time: 31 minutes The Planchet is available w ..read more

Season 2 of The Planchet podcast kicks off with a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Irene Soto Marín, Assistant Curator of Numismatics at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. We discuss her work at the Kelsey with its rich collections of ancient coins and papyri (and related archaeological documentation), Linked Open Data (LOD), the value of the ANS’s Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics, and advice to early career researchers (ECRs) on building a professional network and tips for time-management. Follow this l ..read more

The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 8. An interview with Simon Glenn, Digital Curator of the early modern collections of the Ashmolean Museum, and author of Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria (Numismatic Studies 40). Image: Silver tetradrachm of Demetrius I (200–185 BC), ANS 1997.9.67. The eighth episode of The Planchet features an interview with Dr. Simon Glenn of the Ashmolean Museum. We discuss Glenn’s new book published by the American Numismatic Society, Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria (Numismatic Studies 40), learning where Bactria was located, who lived there (and when), the ..read more

The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 7. An interview with Andrew Burnett (CBE, FSA, FBA), retired Deputy Director of the British Museum and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals, and co-author of Roman Coins, Money, and Society in Elizabethan England. Image: Elias Ashmole by an unknown artist, ca. 1688, after the portrait by John Riley. The seventh episode of The Planchet features an interview with Dr. Andrew Burnett, retired Deputy Director of the British Museum and its Keeper of Coins and Medals, who also presided over the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013–2018. Burnett discusses the ..read more

The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 6. An interview with historian of science and numismatic author of Old Regime France and its Jetons: Pointillist History and Numismatics, Professor Emeritus James E. McClellan III. The sixth episode of The Planchet features an interview with Dr. Jim McClellan, Professor Emeritus of Stevens Institute of Technology, where from 1977 he taught the history of science. McClellan is also a serious student of tokens, namely the jetons of Old Regime (pre-1789) France, and what these tell us about pre-Revolution French history that cannot be gleaned easily from ..read more

The Planchet, Season 1, Episode 5. An interview with numismatic visual artist Jenna Lash. Image: Endangered Species Series: African Elephant. Ugandan 500 shilling note. Acrylic on linen, 60″ × 48″. The fifth episode of The Planchet features an interview with guest Jenna Lash to discuss her numismatic paintings, how she selects her monetary subjects and themes, and what it’s like to be a visual artist in the time of COVID-19. NOTE: The quality of the audio degrades for about a minute in the middle of the podcast, and then recovers for the duration of the recording. Occasional tec ..read more

The American Numismatic Society publishes occasional short updates on ANS news and events. In this second mini-episode, learn about the upcoming Long Table on the Hellenistic Royal Coinages online resource, the Money Talks lecture by Ray Williams, the new issue of the Journal of Early American Numismatics, and more. Total Time: 11 minutes The Planchet is available wherever you get your podcasts or listen below:   ..read more