William E. Metcalf
Professor (Adj.) of Classics;
Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery
William E. Metcalf is jointly appointed in the Department of Classics and the Yale University Art Gallery, where he is Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals. He came to Yale in 2002 after a long career at the American Numismatic Society and several teaching posts.
His focus in recent years has been on the provincial coinage of the Roman empire and he is engaged in preparing the last volume of Roman Provincial Coinage, covering the period from Valerian to the early Tetrarchy; and the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, expected in 2011.
Selected Recent Publications
- "Regionalism in the imperial coinage of Asia Minor," in H. Elton and G. Reger, eds., Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Paris, 2007) 147-159.
- "Telesphorus at Pergamum," Numismatische Zeitschrift 116/7 (2008) 133-134.
- "La Numismatique antique dans un pays moderne," Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique 63.10 (décembre 2008) 214-218.
- "The Ben Lee Damsky Collection," in Bulletin of the Yale University Art Gallery 2008 (2009) 98-105.
- Forthcoming
- "Roman Numismatics," in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Roman World, expected 2010.
- The Later Republican Cistophori (ANS Numismatic Studies), expected 2010.
