2024 Stack Household Lecture
The Fourth of July in Numismatics: The First Hundred Years
with Vicken Yegparian
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December 5, 2024
6:00 PM ET
75 Varick St., Fl. 11
New York, NY 10013
The lecture can be streamed by way of Zoom; a hyperlink can be despatched out to ANS members
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American Numismatic Society (ANS) Fellow Vicken Yegparian is Vice President of Numismatics at Stack’s Bowers Galleries and is a specialist in U.S. copper, silver, and gold cash, together with the Colonial and Confederation durations. He joined the ANS as a member in 1996 and was elected as a Fellow of the Society in 2009. A graduate of Columbia College, Yegparian was the primary recipient of the Georgia Stamm Chamberlain Memorial Award of the Medal Collectors of America for his presentation “The Silver Medals of the King’s Faculty Literary Society, 1767-1771,” delivered on the 2004 Coinage of the Americas Convention on the ANS.
His lecture will concentrate on the numismatic objects referencing and commemorating July 4, 1776 and Independence, mainly these produced between Independence and the U.S. Civil Battle. Although the objects commemorating the 1876 Centennial of Independence are widespread and comparatively well-documented, the medals from this ancient times of American historical past are usually not. The lecture is generously supported because the 2024 Stack Household Lecture on American Numismatics.
Following the lecture, be part of us for the member vacation celebration!
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