Carmen Arnold-Biucchi

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi is Curator of Numismatic Collections at the Harvard University Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics. She was born and raised in Switzerland. Trained as a classical archaeologist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and of Heidelberg, Germany, she later specialized in numismatics. Before coming to Harvard, she worked as Research Associate in numismatics at the Editorial Center of LIMC in Basel, and later at the US Center at Rutgers University. She was at The American Numismatic Society in New York for eighteen years, and she remains the First Margaret Thompson Curator of Greek Coins.

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi taught at the ANS Graduate Seminar from 1989 to 1999. In 1993 she was a Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Padova where she gave a course on Hellenistic Numismatics.

She taught a Graduate Seminar in Numismatics as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in 1995 and at Bryn Mawr College in 2000. She taught an art survey course at CUNY in 2001.

During the summer of 2004, she spent a month of research as Kraay/Robinson Visiting Scholar at the Ashmolean Museum and Wolfson College in Oxford.

At Harvard she is teaching Classics 274. Greek Numismatics II and Ancient Greece through Its Coins, at the Extension School.

Her interests are broad, from Greek art and iconography to the coinages of Sicily and of the Hellenistic period. At the moment she is working on a book on the archaic coinage of Selinous, Sicily, on the coinages of Lysimachos, and on an article on representations of the Zodiac on Roman Provincial coins.

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