Eunice Burr Stebbins Couch

Eunice Burr Stebbins (Couch) was a well-trained Classics scholar with a lifelong passion for greek numismatics. She earned an A.B. from Smith College (Classics, 1916) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (Classics, 1927). Her Ph.D. dissertation was published in 1927; but publication of her later numismatic studies met with disappointment. She was a student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the year 1927-1928. Her “school paper”
assignment to catalogue the coins from the School’s excavations at Corinth had to be changed when it came into conflict with the terms of her Fellowship from Smith College covering her studies in Athens. In 1928 she married Herbert Newell Couch, a fellow graduate student both at Johns Hopkins and the American School in Athens. With the encouragement of Charles Seltman, University of Cambridge, Eunice undertook an in depth die-study of the coinage of Argos. Although she worked for nearly ten years on the Argos study, it was never published. Herbert Couch was a professor of classics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from1930 until his death in 1959. Eunice Stebbins Couch continued to live in Providence until her death in 1992.

Author of biography: Faith Ford Sandstrom
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Keywords: Smith College, Johns Hopkins University, David Moore Robinson, American Numismatic Society, Edward T. Newell, Sydney P. Noe, Agnes Baldwin Brett, Herbert Newell Couch, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth, Brown University, Charles Seltman, Argos, R. Ross Holloway

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