Elsbeth van der Wilt, DRS POINT Fellow in Topoi attended the 2016 Summer Seminar in Numismatics at the American Numismatics Society in New York. This eight-week programme held annually since 1952 is designed for PhD candidates and early career researchers to familiarise themselves with numismatics as a field and use it in a research paper. Pocket Change blog http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/vanderwilt/.