Carmen Arnold-Biucchi

Carmen Francesca Ernesta Arnold-Biucchi (23 June 1947 – 2 January 2026) was a Swiss classical numismatist and archaeologist. She was an expert on the coinages of Greek Sicily and Hellenistic numismatics.

Arnold-Biucchi worked at the American Numismatic Society from 1982 to 2002, before becoming the Damarete curator of ancient coins at the Harvard Art Museums in 2002.

Early life and education Born in Lugano, Switzerland on 23 June 1947, she studied classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, receiving her Magister in 1971. She completed her dissertation on Cypriot terracottas in 1976.

Academic career Arnold-Biucchi worked as a numismatic research associate from 1974–1977 at the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae in Basel and later at the Lexicon 's US Center at Rutgers University.

Books (1990) The Randazzo Hoard and Sicilian Chronology in the Early Fifth Century BC. New York. (2006) Alexander's Coins and Alexander's Image. Boston. (2014) (with M. Beckmann) (eds). Sculpture and Coins: Margaret Bieber as Scholar and Collector. Loeb Classical Monographs.

Other publications (1988) (with L. Beer-Tobey and N.M. Waggoner) 'A Greek archaic silver hoard from Silenus', American Numismatic Society Museum Notes 33, 1–35. (1991) 'Arabian Alexanders', in W.E. Metcalf (ed.), Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, New York, 99–115. (1992) 'A new coin of the Serdaioi (?) at the ANS', in M. Price, A. Burnett and R. Bland (eds), Essays in Honour of Robert Carson and Kenneth Jenkins, London, 1–3. (2002) 'Some remarks on the coinages of South Italy and Etruria and those of Cyprus in the archaic and classical period', Numismatica e antiche classiche 31, 45–67. (2007) (with A.-Peter Weiss) 'The river god Alpheios on the first tetradrachm issued of Gelon at Syracuse', Numismatica e antiche classiche 36, 59–74. (2008) 'Syracusan Dekadrachms revisited', Numismatische Zeitschrift 116/117, 13–28