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CURRICULUM VITAE WILLIAM E. METCALF

Department of Curator of Coins and Medals Yale University Yale University Art Gallery P. O. Box 208266 P. O. Box 208271 New Haven, CT 06520-8266 New Haven, CT 06520-8271 203-562-2003 fax 203-432-0982 203-432-1801 [email protected] 203-432-2780 fax

Education A.B. with distinction and highest honors in , The University of Michigan, 1969; A.M. in Classical Studies, 1970; Ph.D. in Classical Studies, 1973 Honors and Awards National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Museum Professionals, 1978 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1986 Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, 1988/9 C. M. Kraay Visitor, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1992 Robinson Visitor, Ashmolean Museum, 1992 Nickle Lecturer, The University of Calgary, 1993 Corresponding Member, Österreichische Numismatische Gesellschaft, 1998 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1998 Honorand of the William E. Metcalf Lecture Series, Archaeological Institute of America, 2000- Employment Yale University. Professor of Classics (adj.), 2002- ; Curator of Coins and Medals at the Yale University Art Gallery, 2002- . New York University. Adjunct Instructor, Department of Classics, 1996; Adjunct Associate Professor, 2000-2001; Visiting Associate Professor, 2001-2002. The American Numismatic Society. Assistant Curator, Roman and Byzantine Coins, 1973; Associate Curator, 1975; Curator, 1978-2000; Deputy Chief Curator, 1978; Chief Curator, 1979- 2000. Presently Honorary Curator. Rutgers University. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classsics, 2001. Bryn Mawr College. Visiting Professor, Department of Latin, 2000. Università degli Studi di Padova. Professore Contratto, Dipartimento di Archeologia, 2000. Princeton University. Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics, 1999. Columbia University. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Art and , 1978; Adjunct Professor, Department of and Archaeology, 1980- . Adjunct Professor, Department of History, 1993; Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics, 1998.

Publications Curriculum Vitae William E. Metcalf

Books The Cistophori of Hadrian (Numismatic Studies 15, New York, 1980). The Silver Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Vespasian to Commodus (Numismatic Notes and Monographs 166, New York, 1996). In progress: The Proconsular Cistophori (2005). Roman Provincial Coinage vol. 10 (Valerian-Diocletian). As editor: Second edition, with new introduction, of J. M. C. Toynbee, Roman Medallions (Numismatic Studies 5, 1944) (New York, 1986). Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage (Numismatic Studies 17, New York, 1988) (with Wolfgang Hahn). America's Gold Coinage (Coinage of the Americas Conference, November 4-5, 1989) (New York, 1990). Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy Waggoner (New York, 1991) Articles

“Hadrian, Iovis Olympius,” Mnemosyne4 27 (1974) 59-66. “Roman Coins from the River Liri. II,” Numismatic Chronicle7 14 (1974) 42-52. “The ‘Cairo’ Hoard of Tetrarchic Folles,” Revue Belge de Numismatique 120 (1974) 73- 107. “The Tell Kalak Hoard and Trajan's Arabian Mint,” ANS Museum Notes 20 (1975) 39- 108. “A Heraclian Hoard from Syria,” ANSMN 20 (1975) 109-137. “Early Anonymous Folles from and the Chronology of Class A,” ANSMN 21 (1976) 109-128. “The Overstriking of Hadrian's Cistophori,” Actes du 8ème Congrès International de Numismatique New-York-Washington 1973 (Paris-Bâle, 1976) 347-353. “Two Alexandrian Hoards,” RBN 122 (1976) 65-77. “A Note on Trajan's Latin Aes from Antioch,” ANSMN 22 (1977) 67-70. “The Antioch Hoard of Antoniniani and the Eastern Coinage of Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian,” ANSMN 22 (1977) 71-94. “The Antioch Hoard--A Supplement,” ANSMN 23 (1978) 129-132 (with Paul Munro Walker). “New and Noteworthy from Roman , Pescennius Niger - Diadumenian,” in O. Mørkholm and N. M. Waggoner, eds., Studies in Greek Numismatics and Archaeology presented to Margaret Thompson (Wetteren, 1979) 173-182. “The from to A.D. 284” in A Survey of Numismatic Research 1972-1977 (Berne, 1979) 177-191. “Medallions,” in K. Weitzmann, ed., Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century (New York, 1979) 36-44. “Roman Aurei from India,” ANSMN 24 (1979) 123-127. “A Roman Hoard from ,” NC7 19 (1979) 25-34.

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“The Coins—1977” in J. H. Humphrey, ed., Excavations at 1977 conducted by the University of Michigan V (New Delhi, 1980 [=1981]) 185-262 (with R. Bruce Hitchner). “Three Seventh Century Byzantine Gold Hoards,” ANSMN 25 (1980) 87-108. “The Coins from the Cisterns 1977.1, 1977.2, and 1977.3.” in J. H. Humphrey, ed., Excavations at Carthage 1977 conducted by the University of Michigan VI (Ann Arbor, 1981) 79-84. “A Corrigendum to The Cistophori of Hadrian,” ANSMN 26 (1981) 185-186. “A Nummus of Honoria and a Decanummium of Constans from the Excavations at Carthage,” NC 141 (1981) 154-156. “The Coins—1978” in J. H. Humphrey, ed., Excavations at Carthage 1978 conducted by the University of Michigan VII (Ann Arbor, 1982) 63-168. “The Flavians in the East,” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Numismatics, Berne, September 1979 (Louvain-la-Neuve/Luxembourg, 1982) 321- 339.[Abstract] “From Greek to Latin Currency in Third-Century Egypt,” in W. Heckel and R. Sullivan, eds., Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World. The Nickle Numismatic Papers (Waterloo, Canada, 1984) 296. Introduction, bibliography and corrections to J. M. C. Toynbee, Roman Medallions (Numismatic Studies 5, 1944, reprinted New York, 1986) i-xi, 268. “From Greek to Latin Currency in Third Century Egypt,” in H. Huvelin, M. Christol, and G. Gautier, eds., Melanges de numismatique offerts à Pierre Bastien (Wetteren, 1987) 157-168. “The Michigan Finds from Carthage, 1975-1979: An Analysis,” ANSMN 32 (1987) 61- 84. “The Coins—1982” in J. H. Humphrey, ed., The Circus and a Byzantine Cemetery at Carthage (Ann Arbor, 1988) 337-382. “Introduction” to W. Hahn and W. E. Metcalf, eds., Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage (Numismatic Studies 17, New York, 1988), 1-19 (with Wolfgang Hahn). “The Joint-Reign Gold of Justin I and Justinian I,” in W. Hahn and W. E. Metcalf, eds., Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage (Numismatic Studies 17, New York, 1988) 20- 29. “The Severan ‘Cistophori’,” Rivista Italiana di Numismatica 90 (1988) 155-166. “The Dating of the M. Agrippa Asses,” NC 148 (1988) 145-147 (with Giles F. Carter). “ and Again,” American Journal of Numismatics 1 (1989) 51-70. “Aes Grave” in Antiquissima Italiae. Antichità dall'Umbria in New York (Exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University) (Perugia, 1991) 377-386. “Appendix 3: The Coin Finds” in N. Ben Lazreg and D. J. Mattingly, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia Report no. 1 (JRA Supplementary series no. 4, Ann Arbor, 1992) 264-266. “The Emperor's Liberalitas: Propaganda and the Imperial Coinage,” RIN 95 (1993) 337- 346. “The Coinage of Otho and Early Imperial Mint Organization,” in M. Price, A. Burnett and R. Bland, eds., Essays in honour of Robert Carson and Kenneth Jenkins (London, 1993) 155-160. “A Late Second-Century Hoard of Posthumous Alexanders,” Revue Suisse de Numismatique 75 (1994) pp. 19-53.

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“Coins from the Excavations at Tell Nimrin,” AJN 7/8 (1995/6) 145-154 (with William J. Fulco, S.J.) “Roman Dies and Modern Studies,” in R. G. Doty and T. Hackens, eds., in Italia Fato Profugi: Numismatic Studies dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira-Eliza Clain-Stefanelli (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996) 253-258. “Byzantine Imperial Coinage” and catalogue entries nos. 147A-K, 265-266, 280, and 339-340 in Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, eds., The Glory of . Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261 (New York, 1997) 213-217, 399, 422, 502-503. “Notes on the Severan Coinage of Caesarea,” in Nomismata 1. Historisch-numismatische Forschungen. Internationales Kolloquium zur kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung Kleinasiens 27.-30. April 1994 in der Staatliche Münzsammlung, München (Milan, 1997) 173-180. “Aurelian's reform at Alexandria,” in R. H. Ashton and S. Hurter, eds., Studies in Greek Numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price (London, 1998), 269-276. “The ‘Ain Tab Hoard (IGCH 1542),” in A. Burnett, U. Wartenberg, and R. Witschonke, eds., Coins of and Rome: Essays in honour of Charles Hersh (London, 1998) 59-65. “Coins as Primary Evidence” in G. M. Paul and M. Ierardi, eds., Roman Coins and Public Life. E. Togo Salmon Studies 2 (Ann Arbor, 1999) 1-18. “The Mint of Antioch,” in C. Kondoleon, ed., Antioch: The Lost Ancient City (Princeton and Worcester, 2000) 105-111. “The Coins from the 1992 and 1994 seasons” in N. Ben Lazreg and D. J. Mattingly, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta) Report no. 1 (JRA Supplementary series no. 41, Ann Arbor, 2001) 460-464, with pp. 103, 214. “The End of Antioch’s Silver Coinage,” forthcoming in Actes du table-ronde Damas 1999. “The Reka Devnia Hoard Reconsidered” in G. Gorini, ed., Ritrovamenti monetali nel modo antico: problemi e metodi. Atti del Congresso Internazionale, Padova 31 marzo-2 aprile 2000 (2003), 145-150 “Regionalism in the imperial coinage of Asia Minor,” forthcoming in Regionalism in Asia Minor in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (Hartford, 2005?). “Roman Imperial Numismatics” forthcoming in Blackwell Guide to the Roman Empire (2005) “The Roman Empire from the death of to the death of Commodus,” forthcoming in A Survey of Numismatic Research 1996-2001 (Madrid, 2003). “ and numismatics in the 21st century”

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Review Articles “Recent Catalogues in Roman Numismatics” in Journal of Roman Archaeology 1 (1988) 170-175. C. H. V. Sutherland, Roman History and Coinage 44 BC-AD 69. Fifty Points of Relation from to Vespasian (Oxford, 1987); A. M. Burnett and M. H. Crawford, eds., The Coinage of the Roman World in the Late Republic. Proceedings of a colloquium held at the British Museum in September 1985 (BAR International Series 326, Oxford, 1987); Kenneth W. Harl, Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East A.D. 180-275 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1987), in AJA 93 (1989) 303-304. M. Amandry, Le monnayage des duovirs corinthiens (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique supplément 15) (Paris, 1988) and E. Christiansen, The Roman Coins of Alexandria (Aarhus, 1988), in AJA 93 (1989) 487-489. “Recent Work on Provincial Coinage in the East” in JRA 3 (1990) 465-470. C. J. Lightfoot, Recent Turkish Coin Hoards and Numismatic Studies; R. Bland et al., The Chalfont Hoard and other Roman Coin Hoards; V. Lányi, ed., Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Ungarn I; P. Kos, Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Slowenien in AJN 5-6 (1993-4) 248-251. Richard Duncan-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire in Revue Suisse de Numismatique 74 (1995) 145-159. “Coin hoards from Britain and Gaul” in JRA 15 (2002) 611-614.

Reviews M. H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (Cambridge, 1974) in American Journal of Archaeology 80 (1976) 215-216. P. Tyler, The Persian Wars of the Third Century A.D. and Roman Imperial Monetary Policy A.D. 253-268 in American Historical Review 81 (1976) 1082-1083. C. H. V. Sutherland and C. M. Kraay, Coins of the Roman Empire in the Ashmolean Museum I, in Gnomon 49 (1977) 95-97. B. Lichocka, Iustitia sur les monnaies impériales romaines in Gnomon 49 (1977) 427- 429. A. and E. Alföldi, Die Kontorniat-Medaillons in AJA 81 (1977) 406-407. M. Caramessini-Oeconomides, He Nomismatokopia tes Nikopoleos in Gnomon 49 (1977) 632-633. P. Bastien and C. Metzger, Le trésor de Beaurains (dit d'Arras) in AJA 82 (1978) 423- 424. S. Grunauer von Hoerschelmann, Die Münzprägung der Lakedaimonier in AJA 84 (1980) 116-117. H. von Aulock, Münzen und Städte Phrygiens (Istanbuler Mitteilungen Beiheft 25, Tübingen, 1980) in AJA 85 (1981) 500-501. H. Temporini, ed., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II. Principat. vol. 9 part 2 (Berlin/New York, 1978) in American Journal of 104.1 (1983) 103-108. R. Turcan, Numismatique romaine du culte métroaque (Études preliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain 97, Leiden, 1983) in AJA 88 (1984) 285-286. A. Moustaka, Kulte und Mythen auf Thessalischen Münzen (Beiträge zur Archaeologie 15, Wurzburg, 1983) in AJA 89 (1985) 184.

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L. Mildenberg, The Coinage of the Bar-Kochba War ed. Patricia Erhart Mottahedeh (Typos 6, Aarau, 1984) in AJA 90 (1986) 253-256 (with G. W. Bowersock). P. Bastien, Le monnayage de Magnence (350-353) (2nd ed. Wetteren, 1984) in AJA 90 (1986) 372. C. J. Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks. Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire (Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 17, London, 1985) in AJA 91 (1987) 341-342. P. J. Casey, Understanding Ancient Coins. An Introduction for Archaeologists and Historians (Norman and London, 1986) in Classical World 81.4 (1988) 315-316. P. Bastien, Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon du règne de Jovien à la mort de Jovin (Numismatique romaine 16, Wetteren, 1987) in AJA 92 (1988) 623-624. M. Bonfioli, ed., Monete “bizantine„ nelle raccolte numismatiche del Museo Civico di Siena (Ricuperi Bizantini in Italia 2, Rome, 1984) in Speculum 63 (1988) 627. S. Mrozek, Les distributions d'argent et de nourriture dans les villes italiennes du Haut- Empire romain (Collection Latomus 198, Brussels, 1987) in AHR 95 (1990) 795-796. N. Oikonomides, ed., Studies in Byzantine Sigillography (Washington, 1987), Speculum 65 (1990) 737-739. R. Bland and A. Burnett, eds., The Normanby Hoard and other Roman Coin Hoards (Coin Hoards from Roman Britain volume 8, London, 1988), NC 150 (1990) 273-275. D. A. O. Klose, Die Münzprägung von in der römischen Kaiserzeit (AMUGS 10, Berlin, 1987), in AJA 94 (1990) 704-705. M. Alram, Moneta Imperii Romani 27. Die Münzprägung des Kaisers Maximinus I. Thrax (235/238), in AJN 2 (1990) 171-174. A. and E. Alföldi, Die Kontorniat-Medaillons Teil II: Text (Berlin and New York, 1990), in AJA 95 (1991) 755-756. R. A. G. Carson, Coins of the Roman Empire (Berkeley and London, 1990), in Revue Suisse de Numismatique (1991) 102-106. N. Oikonomides, ed., Studies in Byzantine Sigillography 2 (Washington, 1989) in Speculum 67 (1992) 1023-1024. P. Grierson and M. Mays, Catalogue of Late Roman Coin in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection. From Arcadius and Honorius to the accession of Anastasius (Washington, 1992) in AJA 97 (1993) 816. I. Lukanc, Diocletianus. Der römische Kaiser aus Dalmatien in Schweizer Münzblätter 43 (1993) 78-79. A. Burnett, M. Amandry and P. P. Ripollès, Roman Provincial Coinage I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69), in JRA 8 (1995) 348-358. P. Bastien, Le buste monétaire des empereurs romains. Numismatique Romaine 19 (3 vols. Wetteren, 1992-1994), in AJN 9 (1997) 150-154. Commune di Verona Musei e Gallerie d’Arte. Ripostiglio di Venèra Nuovo Catalogo Illustrato. Volume I. Gordiano III-Quintillo, ed. Jean-Baptiste Giard; Volume II/1. Aureliano ed. Sylviane Estiot. (Rome, 1995), in AJN 9 (1997) 154-157. R. H. Ashton, ed., Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey (Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication no. 29 = British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph no. 17, London, 1996) and M. Amandry and G. Le Rider, eds., Trésors et circulation monétaire en Anatolie antique. (Paris, 1994), in AJN 9 (1997) 157-159.

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U. Kampmann, Die Homonoia-Verbindungen der Stadt , oder Der Versuch einter kleinasiatischen Stadt, unter römischen Heerschaft eigenständige Politik zu betreiben (Saarbrücker Studien zur Archäologie und Alte Geschichte 10, Saarbrücken, 1996), SNR 76 (1997) 281-283. R. Bland and J. Orna-Ornstein, Coin Hoards from Roman Britain 10 (London, 1997), in AJN 10 (1998) 155-157. Adriano Savio et al., Katalog der alexandrinischen Münzen der Sammlung Dr. Christian Friedrich August Schledehaus im Kulturgeschichtlichen Museum Osnabrück Band 3 (Osnabrück, 1997) in AJN 10 (1998) 151-155. A. R. Birley, Hadrian, the Restless Emperor (London and New York, 1997), in CW 96.2 (1999) 572-573. A. Burnett, M. Amandry and I. Carradice, Roman Provincial Coinage II. From Vespasian to Domitian (London and Paris, 1999), JRA 13 (2000) 584-588. M. T. Boatwright, Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire (Princeton, 2000) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.08.08 (2001) [ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001-08-08.html]. S. Bakhoum, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France IV. Altexandrie, Auguste-Trajan (Paris, 1998), in AJN 12 (2000) [2002] 247-249. A. R. Bellinger, P. Grierson, M. F. Hendy et al., Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection (Washington, 1999), in Speculum 76 (2001). J.-B. Giard, Monnaies de l’Empire romain III. Du soulèvement de 68 après J.-C. à Nerva (Paris, 1998), forthcoming in SNR.

Booklets Roman Coins (ANS Educational Slide Series no. 3, 1979) Roman Medallions (ANS Educational Slide Series no. 4, 1980)

Miscellaneous “New Collection at the American Numismatic Society,” Archaeology (May 1977) 194- 195 (with Nancy M. Waggoner). Foreword to Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 30--North American Collections by J. D. Brady (London, 1982), vii. “American Numismatic Society” in A Report to the Congress of the United States on the State of the (American Council of Learned Societies, New York, 1985) 69-73 (with G. W. Bowersock, L. A. , H. W. Fowler, and R. A. Hornsby). Obituary for Nancy Mann Waggoner, in AJA 93 (1989), 597-598. Obituary for Margaret Thompson, in AJA 96 (1992), 547-549; reprinted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 137 (1993) 29-33. Obituary for Margaret Thompson in Compte-rendu de la Commission internationale de numismatique 39 (1992), 31-32. “The American Numismatic Society 1958-1996” in Compte-rendu de la Commission internationale de numismatique 42 (1995), 49-55. Articles “American Numismatic Society,” “Max von Bahrfeldt,” “Harold Mattingly,” “E. T. Newell,” and “Numismatics,” in Encyclopedia of the History of (Westport, 1996) pp. 43-44, 113-114, 732, 813-815.

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Article “Medallions” in Macmillan Dictionary of Art (London/New York, 1996). Article “Coinage in Egypt. Pre-Islamic Period” in The Coptic Encyclopedia pp. 573-575. Contributions to Annual Report of the American Numismatic Society, annually 1973- 1998. Various signed and unsigned contributions to Numismatic Literature and ANS Newsletter, 1974-present.

Professional Service American Numismatic Society (Associate, 1971; Fellow, 1979; Life Fellow 1992. Book review editor, American Journal of Numismatics, 1989-2000). American Philological Association (1972; Committee on Basic Research Tools in the Classics, 1976-1980; Subcommittee on Classical Bibliography, 1980-1989). Archaeological Institute of America (1974; Membership Chairman, New York Society, 1976-1978; Executive Committee, New York Society, 1976-1980; Advisory Board of Associate Editors, American Journal of Archaeology, 1982-1997; Chair, Numismatics Committee, 2000- ). Royal Numismatic Society (U.K.) (1975- ) Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization (Associate, 1975; Executive Committee, 1982-1996; Co-Chairman, 1995-1996) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, American Center for Documentation (Executive Committee, 1979-1982; Advisory Committee, 1982-1996) Advisory Committee (1984-2000) Member of the International Numismatic Commission (1991- ; co-editor, Coins and Computers Newsletter, 1991-2003; First Vice-President, 1997-2003). Société Suisse de Numismatique/Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft (member of Editorial Board, 2002- )

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