The third episode of The Planchet features guests Dr. Peter van Alfen, Chief Curator for the ANS, and Dr. Ute Wartenberg, Research Curator for the ANS (not to mention its previous Executive Director for 20 years), as they talk about early electrum coinage, archaeology, and a brief history of money.

Total Time: 57 minutes

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Purchase White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage

ISBN 978-0-89722-349-2

Edited by Peter van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Haim Gitler, Koray Konuk, and Catharine C. Lorber. This is a co-publication between the ANS and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Other ANS volumes featuring electrum coinage http://numismatics.org/store/?s=electrum

View electrum coins in the ANS collection http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=material_facet%3A%22Electrum%22&sort=year_minint+asc

The second episode of The Planchet features guests Dr. Lucia Carbone, Assistant Curator for Roman Coins for the ANS, and Dr. Katie Cupello, expert on Mark Antony and Roman portraiture, as they talk about Antony, his many wives, political iconography, and his program of coinage in the Roman East.

Total Time: 69 minutes

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The inaugural episode of The Planchet features a conversation between Dr. Jesse Kraft, ANS Assistant Curator of the Coins and Currency of the Americas, and Dr. Andrew Reinhard, ANS Director of Publications, about how Americans spent foreign currency before the Coinage Act of 1857.