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. In 1982, she moved to the
American Numismatic Society (ANS) as the Greek and Roman curatorial assistant. She was assistant curator of ancient coins at the ANS from 1984 to 1989. In 1989, she became the first
Margaret Thompson curator of Greek coins. While working at the ANS, Arnold-Biucchi taught the graduate summer seminar (1982–1999). She worked as an adjunct Professor at
Columbia University (1995),
Bryn Mawr (2000), and
CUNY (2001), Visiting Professor at the
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (1993), and at the
EPHE of the
Sorbonne in Paris (2007). In 2001–2002, she was the
J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellow at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2004, she was the
Robinson Visiting Scholar at the
Ashmolean Museum and
Kraay Fellow at
Wolfson College, Oxford. In 2002, Carmen Arnold Biucchi became the
Damarete curator of ancient coins at the
Harvard Art Museums. She was located in the Department of Ancient & Byzantine Art & Numismatics, and was also a Lecturer in Classics. While curator, Arnold-Biucchi organized, digitized, cataloged and promoted the numismatic collection. In 2003 Arnold-Biucchi became the secretary of the
International Numismatic Council, serving as president between 2009 and 2015. ==Death==