Dr. Peter van Alfen, Chief Curator of the American Numismatic Society, will present a lecture titled Why Coinage? Money and Its Origins in the Ancient World in the Diffley Board Room in Bellarmine Hall on Thursday, October 4 at 5:00 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Classical Studies and Art History Programs
Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

Image: Silver tetradrachm. Attica. Athens. 5th Century BC. American Numismatic Society (1941.153.547)