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ANA Exhibit Awards at 2023 World’s Fair of Money

September 15, 2023 American Numismatic Association Leave a comment

The American Numismatic Association (ANA) presented 53 competitive exhibit awards at the 2023 World’s Fair of Money in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most winners were announced at the Exhibit Awards Presentation and Reception on Friday, August 11, but the top prizes were revealed at the 132nd Anniversary Awards Banquet held that evening. Awards are presented in three […]

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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins of the Iconoclasts

August 23, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. The Iconoclastic Controversy was a period of near civil war in the Byzantine Empire that began in about 726 CE and lasted until about 787. It was revived in 814 and finally concluded in 843. The Controversy involved a religious dispute between Iconodules (“image servants”), who venerated icons […]

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CoinWeek Ancient Coins – The Legionary Denarii of Mark Antony

July 12, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. On September 2, 31 BCE, a great fleet under the command of Octavian, the great-nephew and posthumously adopted son of Julius Caesar, faced the fleets of Caesar’s former close companions Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII at the Battle of Actium. Octavian (or rather, Octavian’s friend Marcus Agrippa) won […]

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CoinWeek Ancient Coins – The Anonymous Folles of Byzantium

June 29, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Imperial Byzantine coinage served both economic and propaganda purposes. The coins routinely identified the reigning emperor or empress by name and title, and usually portrayed the ruler in some vigorous pose that demonstrated power and authority. One great exception was the copper coinage that began to appear circa […]

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Sassanian Silver Drachms

June 16, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Ardashir V, King of Persis, defeated Artabanus IV, the last Shahanshah (“King of Kings”) of Parthia, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224 CE. Persis was located in what is now southwestern Iran, while Parthia was located primarily in what is now northeastern Iran; both kingdoms were once […]

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“Gross” Medieval European Coins

June 3, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. From the end of the eighth century into the 13th, European coinage consisted primarily of small silver coins typically weighing less–sometimes much less–than 1.5 grams. These coins were generally known by names that were variations of the words “penny” or “denarius”. The average weight of these coins and […]

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The Dekadrachm – Athens’ Greatest Coin

February 3, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. The coins of Athens are among the most popular and best known of all ancient coins – virtually every collector of ancient coins has at least one “owl” (Athenian tetradrachm) in her or his collection. But the most spectacular Athenian coin is the dekadrachm, most likely struck in […]

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Coins of the Persian Kings of Kings

January 12, 2022 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. The Persians did not have a coinage system of their own until about 546 BCE when Cyrus the Great conquered Lydia and adopted elements of the previous Kroiseid coinage system (developed by Kroisos, the last king of Lydia). When the Persians began minting coins, they not only used […]

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The Ancient Coins of Kroisos

July 12, 2021 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Kroisos, King of Lydia Kroisos, the last king of the Ionian kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor, launched a revolution in coinage when he minted the world’s first gold coins and first silver coins. With his “kroiseids” he also created the world’s first bi-metallic coinage system. The ancient […]

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Michael T. Shutterly: Ten Coins I’d Love to Own

April 20, 2021 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. I enjoy coins for their artistry and for the history behind them. Because there are so many coins with an interesting history behind them, and because there are so many coins that demonstrate great artistry, I can think of far more than just Ten Coins I’d Love to […]

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The One That Got Away: The Trials and Tribulations of Building an Ancient Coin Exhibit

April 14, 2021 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Virtually every collector has experienced “the one that got away”. This usually involves a coin from your Wish List that someone else snapped up. Sometimes because they saw it first and grabbed it before you could. Sometimes because they snuck in a last-second overbid at an online auction. […]

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Medieval English Coins – The Coins of Æthelred the Unready

February 3, 2021 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Æthelred II became King of England on March 18, 978 after the murder of his half-brother Edward, known as Edward the Martyr. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says of the murder of King Edward that “No worse deed than this was ever done by the English nation since they […]

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The Coins of Caesar’s Killers

January 5, 2021 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. Gaius Julius Caesar was murdered at a meeting of the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, 44 BCE. The men who killed Caesar claimed that they were saving the Roman Republic from an oppressive dictator who had taken too much power for himself. The assassins included men […]

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The Coins That Killed Caesar

December 23, 2020 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. The year 45 BCE ended with Gaius Julius Caesar being the most powerful man in the most powerful country in the world. He had defeated all of his enemies and rivals and had reconciled (or so he thought) any who still survived. The Roman Senate had appointed him […]

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The Tetradrachms of Athens (and Athena)

December 16, 2020 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. A long time ago, the goddess Athena purchased the naming rights to the town now known as Athens. Coins had not yet been invented so Athena could not pay cash for the naming rights, but she did have something valuable to offer instead: she gave the Athenians the […]

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The Ancient Coins of Phanes

November 24, 2020 Michael Shutterly Leave a comment

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ….. The first coins to be struck appeared c. 650 BCE in what is now western Turkey. These coins were little more than blobs of electrum; what made these blobs “coins” rather than “bullion” is that they were cast to fit precisely within a measured system of weights and […]

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Numismatic Exhibitors Honored at 2017 ANA Denver World’s Fair of Money

August 27, 2017 American Numismatic Association Leave a comment

The American Numismatic Association (ANA) presented 49 competitive exhibit awards at the 2017 World’s Fair of Money in Denver, Colorado. Winners were announced at the exhibit awards presentation and reception on August 4, and at the awards banquet that evening. Thirty-nine exhibitors of all experience levels, showing 51 exhibits, competed in this year’s program. There […]

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