On Sunday, July 30, 2023, at 7:30 p.m., Michael Markowitz will give a talk entitled “Show Me the Money!” about the evolution of Roman coinage from lumps of metal from about 300 B.C. to gold imperial coins in 476 A.D. 

Michael was born in New York City with Italian roots on his maternal side. His mother’s family name was Genga while his father’s ancestors emigrated from Romania. He attended the University of Rochester and the University of California, Irvine. He worked for many years in the aerospace industry in southern California and then moved to northern Virginia in 1991 where he is a senior research specialist for the Center for Naval Analyses.