Expand your numismatic knowledge with free webinars presented by top industry experts.

Summer Seminar is a once-a-year opportunity for numismatic learning and camaraderie that offers students a varied selection of weeklong courses designed for discovery or continued study. 

Learn how coins can illustrate the history of one of greatest periods of history as the Roman Republic collapsed into chaos and Civil War during the mid-1st Century BC.

Douglas Mudd is the Curator / Director of the American Numismatic Association’s Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is responsible for developing, planning, and content of the Museum’s exhibition program and the organization and care of the ANA collections. He has created dozens of numismatic exhibits for the museum and for the ANA’s semi-annual conventions. His recent work has expanded the museum's exhibits into the virtual world of the internet including Trenches to Treaties: World War I in Remembrance and Money of Empire: Elizabeth to Elizabeth which are available at money.org/money-museum.

The portraits on the coins of the Byzantine Empire often tell us little or nothing about the physical appearance of the Emperors and Empresses who are portrayed on the coins, but they can tell us a great deal about the Empire itself and the circumstances of the time when the coins were minted. Let's look at the stories these pictures can tell.

Michael T. Shutterly is a recovering attorney and a collector who specializes in Roman Republican, early Medieval and Byzantine coinage.  A successful exhibitor at the ANA’s World’s Fair of Money and other shows, he has written numerous articles and delivered multiple presentations on a variety of numismatic topics.  An ANA Life member, he is also a member of several national, regional and local clubs, and serves as an officer or director of several specialty organizations. 

Rare and valuable die varieties are waiting to be "cherrypicked" – found by sharp-eyed collectors and bought for regular-coin prices. Explore today's cherrypicking scene with special emphasis on half dimes, dimes, and quarter dollars, early 1800s to date: Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, Liberty Seated and Barber coinage, and more.

Dennis Tucker has been a coin collector since childhood, when his big brother showed him a "Red Book" and gave him a 1937 Buffalo nickel. Today, he actively collects United States Mint commemorative medals and coins; European medals; Philippine coins struck under U.S. sovereignty; and coins and art medals designed and/or engraved by personal friends. In 2004, Tucker became the youngest publisher in the history of Whitman Publishing. He specializes in books on numismatics, banking and financial history, the American presidency, political and military history, and other nonfiction topics. Since 2016 he has been the numismatic specialist on the U.S. Treasury Department's Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

The American Civil War was a travesty for everyone involved. When put into such situations, individuals are sometimes forced to perform acts of heroism that they never thought possible. Occasionally, those acts are recognized and rewarded with a medal. While Civil War soldiers were not decorated nearly as often as those of later wars, the few that were awarded are of extreme importance and are physical relics of the heroism by those faced with the unthinkable brutalities of war.

Jesse Kraft is the Resolute Americana Assistant Curator of American Numismatics at the American Numismatic Society, where his duties include coins, tokens, medals, and paper currencies from all of the Western Hemisphere.

This presentation addresses financial and family implications, as well as potential strategies, in transitioning away from acquiring coins, and towards their eventual distribution, in a wise and tax-efficient manner.

Jeff Pritchard, lifelong numismatist and retired Financial Planner, spent over 35 years advising individuals, couples and families on investment, estate, legacy, and philanthropic matters.  He has authored numerous articles and books on personal finance, his most recent book being, “529 College Savings Plans for Grandparents – Creating an Educational Legacy.”  Though currently retired, Pritchard serves on the Board and oversees finances for Malaria Partners International, a malaria elimination organization affiliated with Rotary, for which he has made numerous trips to Africa.  Pritchard is a member of the American Numismatic Society, Liberty Seated Collectors Club, and the Pacific Coast Numismatic Society.