MA Student Phillip Register visits American Numismatic Society

By Phillip Register

Donations to the WashU Classics Department allowed MA student Philip Register to carry our research for his MA thesis on coins of the Hellenistic rulers the Lysimachi at the American Numismatic Society in New York. Philip reports on the experience here.

I got to remeasure the relevant coins in the American Numismatic Society collection and spoke with Peter van Alfen, chief curator of the society, and I worked through as many old coin catalogues as I could. Alas, I could not get through all of them, not even close -- I would need another three full days at minimum, probably more, to do so. But I got through at least 1/3rd of all pre-2005, non-online catalogues in the library, and I'm confident that hidden among the rest are a maximum of one or two relevant images. They are even rarer among the Lysimachi than I imagined.

So, in short: no coins relevant to my MA thesis among the hundreds(!!) of Lysimachi I found in old catalogues, but I do have my own measurements and a few interesting non-philo coins recorded for comparison. Plus new connections and broadened horizons.
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