Dr. Kevin Clancy is a

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...

and the Director of the

Royal Mint Museum The Royal Mint Museum is a numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, which houses coins, medals, artwork and minting equipment previous owned by the Royal Mint. Although the museum is located on the same site as the Royal Mint, the mint ...

. Clancy is also Secretary to the ''Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals, Seals and Decorations''Royal Mint Advisory Committee
The Royal Mint Museum, 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2021. which advises the British Government and Crown on the designs of coins and similar objects.

Biography

Kevin Clancy graduated from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

(First Class Honors) with a degree in history and completed a PhD on ''The Recoinage and Exchange of 1816-17''. Kevin Clancy became a member of the

British Numismatic Society The British Numismatic Society (BNS) is an organisation for promoting and realization of the study of British coins and medals. It was founded in 1903. Publications Its principal publication is the ''British Numismatic Journal'', (published fro ...

in 1993.

Recognition

* 2002: Council Prize of the

Publications

Author

''The recoinage and exchange of 1816-17''
PhD Thesis,

, 1999. *A history of the sovereign: chief coin of the world. (2015). ISBN 978-1-869917005 *An illustrated history of the Royal Mint. (2016). ISBN 978-1-869917012 *Objects of war: currency in a time of conflict. (2018) ISBN 978-1-907427909

Editor

*''Designing change: The art of coin design''. Llantrisant: Royal Mint, 2008. *Britannia: icon on the coin. (2016) ISBN 978-1-869917029 *When Britain went Decimal: the coinage of 1971. (2021) ISBN 978-1-912667567

References

Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds Year of birth missing (living people) British numismatists {{UK-academic-stub