American Numismatic Society
American Numismatic Society archival items, chiefly representing correspondence. Finding aid:
1858: Membership cards, 1858 - c. 1940.
1858-1908: Includes early member correspondence by year.
1858: Indexes to Early ANS Correspondence, 1858-1908.
1865: Lincoln Medal Subscription Letters, 1865-1866.
1873: Additional ANS Correspondence, 1873-1901.
1874: Letterpress Copybook #1, December 1874-April 1886.
1874: Additional Isaac Wood correspondence, 1874-1879, 1891-1893.
1881: Letters and postcards to ANS President Charles E. Anthon Regarding Coin Values.
1881: A public attack on Gaston L. Feuardent launched by Genl. Luigi Palma di Cesnola.
1885: Letter of Matthew Stickney, including an 1809 Autograph Paper of Jacob Perkins, Die-Maker of Massachusetts.
1886: Letterpress Copybook #2, April 1886-March 1896.
1889: Includes location change questionnaires.
1890: Includes membership survey questionnaires.
1890-1909: ANS Treasurer Charles Pryer correspondence, by year.
1898: Letter from Charles Porter Nichols, Containing an Old Historic Document of 1734.
1902: Additional ANS Correspondence.
1905: Letterpress Copybook #3.
1906: Letters to ANS Secretary H. Russell Drowne Regarding Coin Values, 1906-1908.
1908: Indexes to Correspondence of Various ANS Members, ca. 1908-1914.
2005: Margo Russell oral history.
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8 entries found for [year:2015]
3/18/2015The Saltus Award and the Art of João Duarte
Curator Peter van Alfen discusses the history of the American Numismatic Society's J. Sanford Saltus Award and the medallic art of its 2011 recipient, João Duarte.
3/23/2015The American Numismatic Society: An Introduction
The American Numismatic Society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the study of coins, currency, medals, tokens, and related objects from all cultures, past and present. For more information or to become a member, please go to: www.numismatics.org.
3/28/2015Fairbanks Infallible Coin Scale
This film looks at one of the more clever anti-counterfeiting devices in the collection of the American Numismatic Society.
4/1/2015Seed Money
Humorous observations from the ANS, to honor April Fools Day.
4/23/2015Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars
An educational video produced for the American Numismatic Society's exhibition "Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money," which ran at the New York Federal Reserve from 2002 to 2012. For more information and content, please go to numismatics.org/exhibits.
5/17/2015Art of Devastation: Medallic Art of the Great War
A short video introduction to the American Numismatic Society's "Art of Devastation" project, which examines the medallic art and history of World War I.
5/21/2015Arthur A. Houghton III Huntington Award and Seleucid Coinage
The American Numismatic Society gave its 2015 Archer M. Hungington Award for excellence in numismatic scholarship to Arthur A. Houghton, III. Following the presentation, he delivered the Silvia Mani Hurter Memorial Lecture, which was entitled "Seleucid Excursions: More Questions than Answers."
5/29/2015American Numismatic Society in the 1980s
A promotional video from the ANS archives.
