S2, Ep. 2. The ANS in the Time of COVID.
Mar 24, 2021
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
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S2, Ep. 1. A Conversation with Irene Soto Marín
Jan 22, 2021
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 link to access the blog of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology as mentioned in this episode.
Total Time: 45 minutes
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Ep. 08: Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria
Nov 24, 2020
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 history of Hellenistic coins minted in the region and how they changed over time, why we know so little about ancient Bactria and its people, and how the pandemic and modern warfare have largely prevented additional archaeological excavation to answer these questions.
Purchase a copy of Money and Power in Hellenistic Bactria here (for US readers) and here (for readers outside the US).
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Ep. 07: A Brief History of Oxford’s Earliest Coin Collections
Sep 24, 2020
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 origins of many of the earliest coin collections kept at Oxford (including those of the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum), the colorful personalities of 16th- and 17th-century collectors (esp. Elias Ashmole), plus a primer on early numismatic catalogues of public collections in Britain and what happens when a coin collection catches fire.
Purchase a copy of Roman Coins, Money, and Society in Elizabethan England here (for US readers) and here (for readers outside the US).
Total Time: 49 minutes
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