ANS Announced Long Table 256 on Chanukah Through Ancient Coinage for December 12, 2025
On December 8, 2025, the ANS announced "Long Table 256. The Story of Chanukah Through Coinage" for December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET. According to the announcement, ANS Fellow Rick Beleson was to retell the story of Chanukah through ancient coinage.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We shortened and rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, an ANS event announcement. We removed unsupported claims (rising collector interest in Jewish-themed coins, background on Hasmonean coinage and the Maccabean revolt, commemorative coin markets, the claim that the session filled a scholarly gap, the speaker's background, and an organization name not given in the source) and the misspelled speaker name (Rick Brettson) in the English version, and made clear that the source is an announcement of a lecture scheduled for December 12, 2025. The previous headline was "ANS Explores Chanukah Through Ancient Coinage History."
This article is based only on an event announcement the ANS published on December 8, 2025. The lecture was scheduled for December 12, 2025; the announcement is the only source for this article.
The ANS announced Long Table 256, "The Story of Chanukah Through Coinage," for December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET.
The speaker was to be Rick Beleson, an ANS Fellow. According to the announcement, he was to retell the story of Chanukah through ancient coinage.
The announcement says Chanukah was first celebrated in the 2nd century BCE. In its words, Chanukah "marks the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem and a miraculous, single-day supply of oil that was able to burn for eight."
The announcement does not say which coins or how many would be discussed.
Source: ANS, "Long Table 256. The Story of Chanukah Through Coinage" (December 8, 2025).
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