American Numismatic Society Reviews Its 2025 Work in Year-End Appeal Letter
On December 10, 2025, the American Numismatic Society (ANS) published its 2025 Year-End Appeal to members and friends. Executive Director Ute Wartenberg listed forty-five online Long Table lectures, more than 1,000 visits to its headquarters, a new CollectiveAccess backend for the MANTIS database, more than 8,000 new records in the DONUM library catalog, and three published books.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, a fundraising letter dated December 10, 2025. We removed material not in the source, including the digitization of millions of specimens, demand from Asia, Europe and South America, research studies, twelve online courses, a 45 percent rise in inquiries, a 70 percent collector survey, 3-5 percent annual gains in gold coins, AI authentication, a traveling exhibition, and market, investment and grading commentary, and kept only the activities and forthcoming books the letter describes. The previous headline was "ANS Reflects on 2025 Achievements and Enhanced Digital Access."
On December 10, 2025, the American Numismatic Society (ANS) published its "2025 Year-End Appeal," a letter to members and friends signed by Dr. Ute Wartenberg, Sydney F. Martin Executive Director. The letter looks back on the Society's work in 2025 and asks for year-end gifts.
Work in 2025
According to the letter, the ANS in 2025:
- held forty-five online Long Table lectures and started the ANS Book Club; - hosted more than 1,000 visits to its headquarters, including people who worked with its curators to explore the collections; - completed the project to build a new CollectiveAccess backend for MANTIS, its collections database, which the letter says will help users find items more easily; - added more than 8,000 records to DONUM, the Society's library catalog; - published three books.
Forthcoming books
The letter names four books the ANS expects to share soon:
- Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest by Benjamin Hellings - When Coinage Was Born: Treasures from the Zhuyuetang Collection by Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert and Ute Wartenberg Kagan - Essays for the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Victor D. Brenner by Jesse Kraft - Hadrian: Coinage and Imperial Policy by Martin Beckmann
The appeal
The letter asks readers to make a tax-deductible gift, which it says will help the Society pursue new projects in 2026 and beyond. A postscript says that, for donors who take the standard deduction, the Year-End Appeal would be extended to January 15, 2026.
Source: American Numismatic Society, "2025 Year-End Appeal" (December 10, 2025).
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