Archaeology Lecture with Peter van Alfen (American Numismatic Society)
Peter van Alfen (American Numismatic Society) will join us to speak on “Power, Money, and Art: Who and What do (Archaic) Coins Represent?". Pizza and refreshments will be available from 12 to 12:30; the lecture will be from 12:30 to 2. Join us in person or!
Lecture Abstract:
On the coins we use today, we recognize the link between the images and the political powers that issue them. These images, often produced by leading artists, generally tend as well to represent notions of community and shared values. Already in the Classical period, imagery on coins had settled into these recognizable functions. But in the first generations of coin production, ca. 650–520 BCE, this wasn’t necessarily the case. This talk explores the nexus of power, money, and art and the processes by which coins came to be used as tools of political and communal representation.
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