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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 20, May 17, 2015, Article 12

THE ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON MEDAL

In a May 15, 2015 ANS Pocket Change blog article, Matthew Wittmann discusses the organization's Archer M. Huntington Award and Medal for excellence in numismatic scholarship. -Editor

The medal was designed by the Austro-American sculptor Emil Fuchs (1866-1929) and originally struck by the firm of Whitehead & Hoag, with later strikings done by the Medallic Art Company. The medal was first proposed at the 1908 meeting in celebration of the American Numismatic Society’s fiftieth anniversary as a way to honor those who had made a substantial contribution to numismatics.

Archer Huntington both recommended Fuchs and provided some direction for the design, which he did not want to feature his portrait. The resulting obverse shows two workers standing on either side of a coin press, while a seated man in the foreground examines a coin with a magnifying glass.

Huntington Award medal obverse Huntington Award medal reverse

The rather more elaborate obverse features a classically-garbed woman holding a scroll upon which the Society’s then new building in Audubon Terrace is pictured and text commemorating its fiftieth anniversary.

A solitary gold specimen was struck and presented to Archer Huntington, and both bronze and silver medals have been given to the awardees over the last hundred years. For more about this piece, and the many other medals struck under the auspices of the ANS, see Scott H. Miller’s new book Medallic Art of the American Numismatic Society, 1865-2014 (2015).

Congratulations to 2015 recipient Arthur A. Houghton, a scholar of Seleucid coinage. The event was held last night. -Editor

To read the complete article, see:
THE ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON AWARD AND MEDAL (www.anspocketchange.org/huntington-award-and-medal/)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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