PUBLICATIONS


All members of the Society receive as a prerequisite of membership the Society's journal, the American Journal of Numismatics, the quarterly Newsletter, 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 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 1995 and four quarterly issues of the Newsletter. Other publications that appeared during the year included The Token: America's Other Money, COAC 10 (1995), ed. Richard G. Doty; American Journal of Numismatics 5-6 (1993-94); and The Silver Coinage of Cappadocia, Vespasian-Commodus, ANSNNM 166 (1996), by William E. Metcalf. Two issues of Numismatic Literature appeared during the year, 135 (March 1996), including the biennial list of publications cited, and 136 (September 1996). 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 7-8 (1995-6) and Studies in the Macedonian Coinage of Alexander the Great (ANSNS 21), by Hyla Troxell. In preparation for publication are Silver Coinage with the Types of Aesillas the Quaestor by Robert A. Bauslaugh and SNGANS Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins by Osmund Bopearachchi.


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 projectsÑboth 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 such as the 1997 Calendar presented on the occasion of the Eric P. Newman Tribute Dinner on October 25, 1996, as well as the quarterly Newsletter and this Annual Report.

The Guide to Photographic Services is available on request and outlines ordering procedures, current photography rates, and the type of permission required for reproducing Society photographic property.

Production statistics for the department during the past year include 2,467 objects photographed for which prints were supplied usually in multiple quantities. In addition, 2,584 color slides were produced. The department also regularly photographs all of the Society's acquisitions to establish a permanent record.


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 three Handbooks currently available: Roman Medallions by William E. Metcalf with 24 color slides; 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, 1794-1891 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, 1793-1933 by John W. McCloskey with 36 color slides.

At the May 4, 1991, Coinage of the Americas Conference, "Money of Pre-Federal America," all seven presentations were filmed and are available separately on VHS video cassettes. 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.


VISITORS


In 1996 numerous scholars from overseas visited the ANS. These included Paul Arnold (Dresden), Maria Paz Garcia Bellido (Madrid), Katerina Chryssanthaki (Paris), Frederique Duyrat (Paris), Haim Gitler (Jerusalem), Martin Huth (Tehran), H. J. Kellner (Munich), Hubert Lanz (Munich), Katerini Liampi (Athens), Alexander Nikitin (Saint Petersburg), Gianni Paoletti (Trieste), Raffaele Paolucci (Padua), Ziad Sawaja (Paris), Achim Schramm (Zurich), Manolis Stefanakis (London), Eugeniy Zeymal (Saint Petersburg), and Konstantin Zhukov (Tsukuba). A most welcome development in recent years has been the opportunity to learn about the scholarship done by our colleagues in the Commonwealth of Independent States, now that they are free to travel to the west. Alexander Nikitin delivered a talk to the New York Numismatic Club in March entitled "Recent Developments in Sasanian and Kushano-Sasanian Numismatics." Manolis Stefanakis, a student of Martin Price, delivered a talk on Cretan coins to the New York Numismatic Club in February.

The January meeting featured presentations by Graduate Seminar alumni Michael Smith, Rachel Koopmans, and Judith Nolan. Other returning Seminar students included Robert A. Bauslaugh, Sarah Brooks, Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr., Sarah E. Cox, Jane DeRose Evans, Braden Frieder, Kenneth W. Harl, Roger A. Hornsby, Ann-
Marie Knoblauch, John H. Kroll, Andrew Kurt, Sarah Lawrence, Brooks Emmons Levy, Eleanora Luciano, Constantin Marinescu, Thomas R. Martin, Rudi Matthee, Bradley McLain, Stephen K. Scher, and Harriet Schwartz. Jane DeRose Evans delivered a lecture on the excavations at Caesarea Maritima at the New York Numismatic Club in April; her lecture was originally scheduled for January, but snow and flooding led to the collapse of Metro-North.

The visiting scholar for the Graduate Seminar this year was Professor Andrea Saccocci from the Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni Culturali, Universita degli Studi di Udine. The requirements for the visiting scholar can be demanding D delivering three lectures and helping the students with their projects D but Saccocci also found time to go through the auction catalogues in our library, looking for additional Veronese deniers. Saccocci knew that we were interested in coins from shipwrecks, so whenever he found a shipwreck catalogue he passed it on to us. This information will be very useful once we find the time to work through all the catalogues. Later in the summer Professor Saccocci was joined by his wife Rosa and his daughter Chiara, and we had the pleasure of meeting them both at a big party given in at the Amsterdam Cafe for all the members of the seminar, which was a very handsome gesture. After the seminar Saccocci and his family flew out west and drove through the desert to California.
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STAFF ACTIVITIES


In May Dr. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi presented a paper on "The Pergamene Mint under Lysimachus" at the conference "Western Asia Minor in Graeco-Roman Times" held in Berkeley. In July, she was invited to give a lecture and a seminar at the University of Gottingen, Germany, by ANS Corresponding Member Christof Boehringer who teaches there and is in charge of the important cast collection. Arnold-Biucchi spoke on "Archaic Selinus in Sicily" and in the seminar introduced the students to "The Coinage of Alexander" with many slides from the ANS collection. Her publications this year included a review of D. T. Potts, The Pre-Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia (1991) in AJN 5-6 (1993-
94), pp. 234-41, of Pasquale Attianese, KROTON: Ex Nummis Historia. Dalle monete la storia, il culto, il mito di Crotone (Settignano, 1992) in SNR 74 (1995), pp. 105-9, and an article on "Some New Cast Bronze Coins from Selinus at the ANS" in Italiam Fato Profugi. Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), pp. 9-19.

Dr. Michael L. Bates spent three months in the winter of 1996 as a Center for Near East Studies Fellow at the Gustave von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles. During his term, Bates gave a four-
lecture series, "Money Before Machinery: Fundamentals of Monetary History" under the auspices of the Center. He also conducted a workshop on "Collecting Islamic Coins," given for collectors and dealers one Saturday afternoon at the center, co-sponsored by the Center and the ANS. Returning from Los Angeles, Bates stopped at the University of California, Berkeley, where he lectured for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on "Heirs and Magnates, Wards and Guardians: Why Did the Abbasid Caliphs Appoint Successors?" In November at the Society Bates organized and chaired an Arab-
Byzantine Forum for Society members, with some fifteen participants and seven presentations. He participated in the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association with a paper titled "al-Mutawakkil's True Heir" based on the numismatic evidence which shows al-Mu'tazz to have been the intended successor of al-Mutawakkil even though that caliph is known from the histories to have had an older son sworn in as first successor. In April Bates participated in a conference at Hofstra University, "Inscription as Art in the World of Islam" with a paper that responded to the questions "Who Was Named on Abbasid Coins? What Did It Mean?" The following month in a symposium at Oxford University, "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Samarra" on the capital of the Abbasid caliphate from 835 to about 880, Bates gave a paper entitled "Khurasanis and Turks in Samarra." Later that month at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Chicago, he lectured on "Heirs and Magnates, Wards and Guardians: Why did the Abbasid Caliphs Appoint Successors?" an extension of his earlier MESA paper. This year saw the publication of "Roman and Early Muslim Coinage in North Africa," in North Africa from Antiquity to Islam: Papers of a Conference Held at Bristol, October 1994 (ed. Mark Horton and Thomas Wiedemann; Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol, Occasional Paper 13; Bristol, 1995), pp. 12-15; "Dinar ii. In Islamic Persia," in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 7, fascicle 4 (Costa Mesa, CA, 1995), pp. 413-16; "Dirham ii. In the Islamic Period," in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 7, fascicle 4 (Costa Mesa, CA, 1995), pp. 426-28; "An 'Abbasid Dinar of the Year 200 Hijra from Wasit," in Italiam Fato Profvgi, Hesperinaque venerunt litora: Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-
Stefanelli (Publications d'Histoire de l'Art et d'Archeologie de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, 70, Numismatica Lovaniensia, 12, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), pp. 33-36. There also appeared three book reviews, of Elizabeth Errington and Joe Cribb, eds., The Crossroads of Asia: Transformation in Image and Symbol in the Art of Ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan (Cambridge, Eng.: The Ancient India and Iran Trust, 1992), in the American Journal of Numismatics, 2nd series, 5-6 (1993-94), pp. 269-71; of Xinjiang Numismatics (Hong Kong: Xinjiang Art and Photo Press, 1991), in the American Journal of Numismatics, 2nd series, 5-6 (1993-94), pp. 271-74; and of Rika Gyselen, La geographie administrative de l'empire sassanide: Les temoignages sigillographiques. Res Orientales 1 (Paris, 1989), in Iranian Studies 28 (1995), pp. 236-38; as well as an obituary for "Robert C. Grossman," in al-
Usur al-Wusta 8, 2 (October, 1996), p. 53.

The year began on a bright personal note for Society Director Leslie A. Elam who, in October, attended his son's Ph.D. defense in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. The second decade of the annual Coinage of the Americas Conference began on October 28 with "Coinage of the American Confederation Period," chaired by Dr. Philip Mossman. Elam again acted as conference coordinator and subsequently saw the Proceedings volume through the press. At 346 pages, this is the longest book yet published in this important American series. Immediately following COAC 11, he went to Kansas City, KS, for a weekend meeting of the Conference of Administrative Officers of the American Council of Learned Societies, devoted in the main to the emerging use and dependence of membership organizations on electronic means of communication and publication. At the Annual Meeting of the ACLS, held in April in Washington, DC, Elam was joined by ANS Delegate Roger Hornsby whose report on the meeting appeared in the Society's summer Newsletter. Prior to the ACLS business sessions, Elam represented the Society at the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance, in which the ANS holds associate membership. Elam benefitted from participation in a conference on "Legal Problems of Museum Administration," held in Pittsburgh this past March under the auspices of the AAM and ALI/ABA, involving, among other topics, contract and copyright issues related to CD-ROM production and Internet publishing. Again this past year, there were both winter and spring NYINC shows, the latter held at the Marriott World Trade Center facility, a spacious and well lit exposition space, at which Elam took his usual turn at the ANS Information Booth provided as a courtesy by the show's sponsors. A trip to Huntsville, AL, in late June provided not only the welcome opportunity to meet and come to know James C. Spilman, president of the Colonial Newsletter Foundation and editor of its prestigious journal CNL since 1963, but also to conclude negotiations toward the donation to the ANS of this publication as of 1997. Traveling with Elam was Dr. Philip L. Mossman who will be the editor of CNL for the ANS. In July, Elam and his wife Judi, visited Deer Isle, ME, for a delightful sojourn with Harry and Doris Bass, on vacation from their home in Dallas. On the way home, the Elams stopped for a brief visit with Libby Norweb at her summer home in Booth Bay Harbor. Attendance at the ANA annual meeting in Denver provided Elam his first opportunity to visit the ANA Headquarters in Colorado Springs following the convention. At the close of business, Elam, as a member of the Program Committee, was busy preparing for the Society's Eric P. Newman Tribute Dinner scheduled for October 25.

In October three articles by Dr. John M. Kleeberg on counterfeiting, numismatics, and tokens appeared in The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Professor Kenneth Jackson of Columbia University and published by Yale University Press. The encyclopedia has been a tremendous success, and one of our contacts inside Barnes and Noble tells us it is one of the fastest selling books in the store. Kleeberg is particularly proud of his contributions, because it is due to his article on numismatics that Edward T. Newell and Margaret Thompson are listed in the index to the encyclopedia. In December Kleeberg delivered a lecture to the Societe Americaine pour l'Etude de la Numismatique Francaise on "Regional Minting and Coin Distribution: The Evidence of two French Eighteenth Century Gold Hoards," which was an examination of the applicability of Thordeman's law to two hoards of louis d'or, one from the shipwreck of Le Chameau and the other the huge gold hoard of the Rue Mouffetard. Kleeberg became interested in the Rue Mouffetard hoard when he visited the Archives Nationales in 1995 and used the three hours he spent waiting for his files to arrive to read Georges Droulers' book on French hoards. In December Kleeberg was elected president of the New York Numismatic Club, succeeding to a line of presidents which includes Edward T. Newell, Howland Wood, Michael Druck, and, among present members of the ANS staff, Marie Martin and Alan Stahl. In April and May Kleeberg went to Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Wolfenbuttel, and London, where he did research in the libraries and archives. Two volumes in the Coinage of the Americas Conference series appeared this year containing contributions by Dr. Kleeberg -- "The Theatre at New York" in The Token: America's Other Money and "The Shipwreck of the Faithful Steward" in Money of the American Confederation Period. The first Coinage of the Americas Conference volume edited by Kleeberg has now sold out. It was issued in 1992, so this is the fastest any ANS volume has ever sold out. Arnold-
Biucchi's volume on the Randazzo hoard (issued in 1991) also sold out this summer, and since her book is bigger and costs more money, bragging rights probably belong to her.

Dr. Marie H. Martin spent a day in June and another in December at the New York International Coin Convention taking care of the ANS information booth. She also attended meetings of the Oriental Numismatic Society and of the Islamic and Far Eastern committee of the Society held in conjunction with the NYINC. Active in the New York Numismatic Club, she continues to serve on its Board of Directors. As usual, she attended two or three trade shows. She was re-elected to her co-op board and is serving another term as president.

In October 1995 Chief Curator, Dr. William E. Metcalf traveled to London to participate in a symposium in memory of Martin Price, formerly Deputy Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, the British Museum, and Director of the British School at Athens. Metcalf's paper, entitled "The Lost Year Revisited," drew upon Price's own work. The topic continued to engage him and was discussed again at Chicago on March 27 in "The Science of Numismatics," which was jointly sponsored by the ANS with the Chicago Coin Club. Metcalf continued to gather material for the paper and for ongoing work on Roman provincial coinage during his research leave, which was spent partly in the Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Last fall, with the assistance of Dr. Elena Stolyarik, Metcalf mounted an exhibition of Byzantine coins at the Onassis Center in connection with the twenty-first annual Byzantine Studies Conference. He also chaired a session for the reading of papers at that conference. During the spring Metcalf taught a course in "The Age of Augustus" at New York University and immediately following, in May, he traveled to San Francisco, and spoke about "Caracalla at Pergamum" to the second ANS/Berkeley/San Francisco Ancient Coin Society colloquium. Later that month he attended the meeting of the International Numismatic Commission in Stockholm.

Publications during the year included review articles on Richard Duncan-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire in Revue Suisse de Numismatique 74 (1995), pp. 145-59; and A. Burnett, M. Amandry, and P. P. Ripolles, Roman Provincial Coinage I, from the Death of Caesar to the Death of Vitellius (44 BCDAD 69), in Journal of Roman Archaeology 8 (1995), pp. 348-58, as well as "Roman Dies in Modern Studies," which appeared at last in R. G. Doty and T. Hackens, eds., in Italia Fato Profugi...: Nuimismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996) pp. 253-58.

Dr. Alan M. Stahl gave a paper this year to the University Seminar on Economic History of Columbia University on "The Economics of Minting in Medieval Venice" and lectured on other medieval topics to audiences ranging from a class at the Booker T. Washington Middle School, through a seminar of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, to an Elder Hostel group which visited the ANS. At the International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University in May, he organized and chaired two sessions which featured papers by Graduate Seminar alumni Andrew Kurt, Florin Curta, Bradley McLain, Lisa Wolverton, Judith Nolan, and Eleonora Luciano. In June he introduced a lecture sponsored by the ANS Committee on Medieval Coinage at the International Numismatic Convention, at which Seminar alumnus Bradley McLain spoke, and sat on the Fordham University panel for the successful defense by Seminar alumnus James Todesca of his doctoral thesis on the monetary policy of the medieval Castilian monarchy. June was also the month of the Congress of the International Medals Federation (FIDEM) in Neuchatel, Switzerland, where Stahl led the USA Delegation and served on the Executive Committee. Other medallic venues this year included a general talk on the history of the medal at the opening of an exhibition of the American Medallic Sculpture Association at the Newark Museum, a talk on Indian Peace Medals to accompany a loan of ANS pieces at the Hudson River Museum, and talks on the medals of the American Revolution to the ANS Saturday Seminar series and the Bergen County Coin Club. For the COAC Conference this year, Stahl mounted an exhibit of medals of the Comitia Americana series, and for the Saltus meeting in February he curated an exhibit of the work of award recipient Nicola Moss and one entitled "The English Medal," featuring medals and decorations drawn from the Society's rich collection. He also mounted a small exhibit for the annual "Day without Art" commemoration on December 1, to honor the work of five numismatists who have died of AIDS or are living with the disease. In August, Stahl was granted the honorary title of Master Numismatist by the newly organized School of Numismatics of the American Numismatic Association. His report on the coin finds from the excavation of Columbus's first settlement was published this year as "Coins from the Excavations at La Isabela, D.R., the First European Colony in the New World," AJN 5-6 (1993-
94), pp. 189-207, and in abbreviated form in "The First Coins in the New World; Coins from the Excavations at La Isabela, Republica Dominicana," Boletin de la Asociacion Espanola de Arqueologia Medieval 6 (1992), pp. 93-100. Articles on Venetian numismatics comprised "The Earliest Known Medalists: The Sesto Brothers of Venice," co-authored with Louis Waldman, AJN 5-6 (1993-94), pp. 167-88, and "The Deathbed Oration of Doge Mocenigo and the Mint of Venice," in Inter-Cultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean, Essays in Honour of David Jacoby, ed. Benjamin Arbel, in Mediterranean Historical Review 10 (1996), pp. 284-301. Publications in the field of American medals were "Victor D. Brenner and the American Numismatic Society," in Italiam Fato Profugi; Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli, Numismatica Lovaniensia 12 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), pp. 317-26, and "Medals of the Comitia Americana Series in the Collections of the American Numismatic Society and other Public Institutions," in Coinage of the American Confederation Period, ed. Philip L. Mossman, COAC Proceedings 9 (New York, 1996), pp. 261-346.

During the year Dr. Elena Stolyarik assisted the curators in preparing the numerous exhibits are which mentioned below. In March 1996 she represented the ANS at the Congress "The Greeks in the Black Sea" in Thessaloniki, Greece. This congress was devoted to the history of the Greek colonies in the Black Sea region. The new information which has emerged from the latest archaeological research will be helpful for future recataloguing of the ANS collection. During the year Stolyarik continued her study and cataloguing of the collection from the mints of the northern coast of the Black Sea. In March 1996 she delivered a talk about Bosporan gold coinage of the late hellenistic period in a memorial session in honor of the late Professor Petr Karyshkovskij. This session was organized by Dr. Juri G. Vinogradov, from the Center of the Comparative Study of the Ancient Civilizations in Moscow, who was at that time a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In the summer Stolyarik introduced ANS Graduate Seminar students to aspects of Byzantine coinage and also trained them in castmaking. She was a consultant to Drs. David and Irene Romano of the Pennsylvania University Museum for the numismatic part of the Glencairn Museum Catalogue. Her review of "The Coinage of Mesambria" by Ivan Karayotov appeared in AJA 99 (October 1995).