Publications in press at the end of the fiscal year included The Token: America's Other Money, COAC 10 (1994), Richard G. Doty, editor; The Silver Coinage of Cappadocia, Vespasian-Commodus, ANSNNM 166, William E. Metcalf; American Journal of Numismatics 5-6 (1993-94); and Studies in the Macedonian Coinage of Alexander the Great, ANSNS 21, Hyla Troxell.
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 the quarterly ANSNewsletter and the 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 2,522 objects photographed for which prints were supplied in varying quantities. In addition, 2,506 color slides were produced. The department also regularly photographs all of the Society's acquisitions to establish a permanent record.
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. Two Handbooks are 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, 1794-1891 by John W. McCloskey with 36 color slides; The Coinage of El Peru by Freeman Craig with 36 color slides; and America's Federal Gold Coinage 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 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 America 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 of Early American Paper Money"; and Alan M. Stahl, "American Indian Peace Medals of the Colonial Period."
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. Volunteers are needed to help identify, mount, and file coin photographs.
The January meeting featured presentations by Graduate Seminar alumnae Sarah Brooks, Sarah Lawrence, and Georgia-Constantina Nikolaou. Other returning Seminar students included Robert A. Bauslaugh, Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr., Steve Cerutti, Sarah E. Cox, Jane DeRose Evans, Kenneth W. Harl, Michael Ierardi, Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Brooks Emmons Levy, Constantin Marinescu, Rudi Matthee, Bradley McLain, Steven Ross, Faith Sandstrom, Maria Schonhammer, Amy C. Smith, and Gavin Sundwall Bauslaugh delivered the Bullowa lecture in September and Seminar alumni Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Constantin Marinescu, Maria Schonhammer, and Alan Stahl addressed the New York Numismatic Club in October, January, May, and June.
The Visiting Scholar at this year's ANS Graduate Seminar was Dr. Francois de Callatay of BibliothŠque Royale Albert 1er Of Brussels, a specialist in the coinage of Mithradates. In addition to supervising the seminar students, Dr. de Callantay delivered the Wormser lecture to the New York Numismatic Club, which was also attended by his wife, Pascale. We enjoyed discussing with de Callatay the massacre of Roman merchants in Asia in SS B.C. and also his diagram of a big bird, flying towards Rome, depicting the spread of fixed die axes throughout the Mediterranean world.
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In October and November 1994 Dr. Michael L. Bates was in Oxford as Samir Shamma Fellow in Islamic Numismatics and Epigraphy at St. Cross College. The Fellowship permitted two months of research, primarily in the Oriental Reading Room of the Bodleian Library, the Library of the Oriental Institute, and the library of the Ashmolean Museum. He collected material for a forthcoming book on the use of caliphal and other honorary titles in the ninth- and tenth-century Abbasid caliphate and for a study of the use of money in pre-industrial societies. As a Fellow, Bates lectured at St. Cross College on "The Expression of Sovereignty in the Abbasid Caliphate, 833-946" using material from his book in progress. He also gave a series of three lectures intended for students in numismatics (but in fact attended by many members of the University's numismatic community) titled "Money Before Machinery." In London, he attended the Arab-Byzantine Study Day sponsored by the Oriental Numismatic Society and spoke about "The Copper Mints of Bilad al-Sham after 'Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform." During his stay Bates resided in rooms at the college, above St. Giles, and as a Fellow of the College was privileged to join the other Fellows and Students every day for lunch and otherwise participate in the life of a great university, including lectures, concerts, tours of the colleges, and walks in the countryside. He is most grateful to Mr. Shamma, whose generous donation funds the annual Fellowship, and to his colleagues and friends in the Heberden Coin Room, the Oriental Institute, and St. Cross College. Also during the past year, in February, Bates participated in a seminar for the public on Islamic Archaeology at the other Oriental Institute, the one at the University of Chicago, where he spoke on Archaeology and Numismatics." This past year Bates' review of Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Palastina IVa Bilad as-Sam 1, by Lutz Ilisch (Tubingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1993) appeared in the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin for December 1994.
Society Director Leslie A. Elam served on the planning committee for, and as one of the presenters at, the tribute dinner on October 21 in honor of outgoing ANS President R. Henry Norweb, Jr. Mr. Norweb's untimely death in May 1995 occasioned a trip by Elam and his wife Judith to represent the ANS at the memorial service held in Cleveland on June 20. In September they again represented the ANS at services held in memory of John D. Leggett, Jr., who had served on the Society's Council for over 20 years. A conference on museum security took Elam to Boston in June while in April he attended meetings of the American Council of Learned Societies held in NYC, including working sessions of the Conference of Administrative Officers and the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance. At the business meeting of the ACES, Elam represented the ANS in the absence of Society Delegate, Roger A. Hornsby, who was abroad at the time. Even for a "New Yorker," leaving the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel coincident with the arrival of President Clinton proved a unique experience. The ANS again this year participated in both the winter and spring NYINC shows at which Elam took his usual turn at the ANS information table provided as a courtesy by the show sponsors. He also continued as coordinator for the annual Coinage of the Americas Conference and during the year saw two COAC Proceedings volumes through the press: America's Silver Dollars, edited by John M. Kleeberg, which appeared in May and The Token: America's Other Money edited by Richard G. Doty, distributed shortly after the close of the period under review.
Arlene Jacobs designed and executed all activities surrounding events sponsored by the ANS including publicity, public relations, receptions, and dinners. There was the major dinner party honoring R. Henry Norweb, Jr; there was the theater benefit chaired by Donald Partrick; there were the public lectures and the educational symposium in Boston; there was the ANA Convention in Anaheim with 21 volunteers. The highlight event for the year was creating, planning, and executing the tour/cruise for 15 members to visit Mantua and Venice and then proceed on a seven-day cruise of the Greek Islands. Ms. Jacobs attended the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums meetng in Annapolis and the AAM meeting in Philadelphia to create stronger bonds with other museums. She also attended monthly Planned Giving Meetings to keep abreast of the fastest deferred giving activities. This year Jacobs involved the Society with the "New York is Book Country" weekend bringing a new group of people to visit the ANS. She also arranged for a visit by a Thai delegation from the Ministry of Finance of Thailand.
In October Dr. John M. Kleeberg delivered a paper on the "Theatre at New York Token" at the Coinage of the Americas Conference devoted to the token. In November he delivered the first Robert Gore Lecture in Numismatics at Notre Dame University, speaking on "How Were the Hessian Troops Paid?" In December he wrote articles on "counterfeiting," "numismatics," and "tokens" for the Encyclopedia of New York City, which appeared in fiscal 1996. In January he wrote a biography of John Sanford Saltus for the American National Biography, which is being published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies and should appear in late 1998. Alan Stahl asked him to deliver excerpts from this biography at the Saltus meeting in February. In March he delivered a lecture entitled "The Early Buildings of New York City:
The Problem of the Numismatic Evidence" to the northern New Jersey branch of the American Institute of Archaeology. He also wrote an article on "numismatics" for the Encyclopedia of Historiography. In May he went to London and Paris and also visited Versailles. In July America's Silver Dollars appeared, a book for which he did the editing. He attended the convention of the American Numismatic Association in Anaheim, where he served on a panel on collecting American colonial coins which was chaired by Tom Rinaldo and which included ANS Councillors Eric P. Newman and Donald Partrick. He also served as Vice-President of the New York Numismatic Club.
As usual, Dr. Marie H. Martin attended two publishing shows, one in the spring, the other in the fall. As far as trade shows are concerned, the emphasis in the industry seems to be "the bigger, the better" no matter what the issue. She was again involved in "Uptown Treasures" and took on the responsibility of dispatching buses all day long — a large part of it in the rain after her umbrella disappeared while she was dealing with lists and timing. She attended the annual South Asia meetings in Madison and visited with ANS Fellow Martha Carter, editor of A Treasury of Indian Coins, in which appeared Martin's article "Parallels in Coinage and Architecture: The Bahmani Kingdom" (Bombay, Marg Publications, 1994), pp. 79-88. In both December and June she spent a day at the New York International Coin Convention taking care of the ANS booth and attending meetings of the Oriental Numismatic Society. She was reelected to her co-op board and again serves as president. She remains active in the New York Numismatic Club and serves on its Board of Directors.
In December Dr. William E. Metcalf represented the ANS at the meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in Atlanta. In March he traveled to Madrid to continue his colaboration with Dr. M. Paz Garcia-Bellido of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and, while there, was able to spend time at the Museo Arqueologicao Nacional. In May he attended the meetings of the International Numismatic Commission in Nicosia, Cyprus, and delivered an illustrated talk entitled "Treasures of Ancient Cyprus in New York." At the end of September he spoke on "Coins as Primary Evidence" at a conference entitled "Roman Coins and Roman Society" at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. During the year he also addressed Cooper Union students of Hetty Joyce, University of Washington students of Chris Hallett, and various elementary and secondary school groups. Once again Metcalf served as a reader of grant applications for the Institute of Museum Services. In May he was elected co-chairman of the Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization. Metcalf continued as editor of the Coins and Computers Newsletter, of which two numbers appeared during the year. His own major publication was "A Late Second-Century Hoard of Posthumous Alexanders," Revue Suisse de Numismatique 75 (1994), pp. 19-53.
Dr. Alan M. Stahl spent much of the fall of 1994 in Venice, working on the edition of two notarial registers of fourteenth-century Crete, which he is pubfishing under the sponsorship of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and the Centro Ellenico di Venezia. While there he lectured to the Numismatics Seminar of Professor Giovanni Gorini at the University of Padua, the graduate program in Venice of Warwick University, and the Circolo ItaloBritannico di Venezia. In July, Stahl testified before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services on the subject of the design of United States commemorative coins. His ideas on the redesign of the circulating coinage were broadcast on the Monitor News Radio Network in May. Stahl returned to Italy in September of 1995 to speak at the conference on the coinage of the Gonzaga held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "I Gonzaga" at the Palazzo Te in Mantua and his article "Monete dei Gonzaga nella Collezione della American Numismatic Society," appears on pp. 339-44 of the catalogue of the show. At the International Congress on Medieval Studies in May he delivered a talk on "Venetian Coinage in the Age of Enrico Dandolo" in the sessions in honor of the late Donald E. Queller and organized and chaired a session featuring papers by ANS Graduate Seminar alumni Gregor Kalas, Warren Schultz, and Sarah Lawrence. At that Congress he was elected to the Board of Directors of AVISTA, the Association Villard d'Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art. He spoke this year to the University Seminar in Medieval Studies of Columbia University, the Medieval Club of New York, the New York Numismatic Club, and the Classical Numismatic Society of the Delaware Valley and lectured to classes from the Graduate Center of CUNY and Columbia University. For the Saltus Award Meeting in February he curated an exhibit of the work of award recipient Alex Shagin and an overview of the medallic art of Victor D. Brenner. His publications this year include "The Cephalonia Hoard of Venetian and Hungarian Coins," Nomismatika Chronika 13 (1994), pp. 85-102; "Office Holding and the Mint in Early Renaissance Venice," Renaissance Studies 8, 4 (1994), pp.404-15; and "Cast or Struck: A Medallic Option," Proceedings of the XXIV Congress of the Federation Internationale de la Medaille, Budapest 1994, Medailles 24 (1995), pp. 25-31.
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Dr. Elena Stolyarik during the year was responsible for registration of all incoming and outgoing loans, the arrangements for shipping loans, keeping track of permanent loans, assisting the curators in registration of new accessions, and labeling coins for the vaults. She also made about 700 casts and assisted the curatorial staff in the installation of four temporary exhibits. In la February 1995 Stolyarik was elected a member of New York Numismatic Club. In March, she gave a slide illustrated talk, "The Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Coins of the Ancient City of Olbia." She also delivered an illustrated lecture "A General Introduction to Byzantine Numismatics" for the Graduate Seminar. During the spring she continued her consulting role at the Pennsylvania University Museum where she had been cataloguing the new numismatic acquisitions from the Collection of L. Danny Dannenbaum, preparing them for a new exhibit in the Greek Gallery. In May she was invited to review the new monograph of van Karayotov, "The Coinage of Mesambria" (1994), for the American Journal of Archaeology. Also she has been working with the computerized ANS data base and has started a reexamination and classification of ancient Greek coins from the region north the Black Sea.
