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British Museum Department Of Coins And Medals
The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. The collection spans the history of coinage from its origins in the 7th century BC to the present day, and is representative of both Eastern world, Eastern and Western world, Western numismatic traditions. History Numismatics constituted an important part of the 1753 bequest of Sir Hans Sloane which formed the British Museum's original collection, comprising some 20,000 objects. The collection was incorporated into the Department of Antiquities in 1807, before the establishment of a separate Coins and Medals department in 1860–1. As in other parts of the museum, the department has been able to expand its collection by purchase, donation and bequest. The department h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum Fishpool Hoard
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Philip Attwood
Philip Attwood (born 23 March 1954) is a British numismatist associated with the British Museum Department of Coins and Medals, where he served as chief curator until his retirement in 2020. His brother is David Attwood (film director). Biography Philip Attwood graduated in Ancient history and Archaeology from the University of Birmingham in 1975. He joined the British Museum in 1978, initially as an assistant in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, before becoming a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals the following year. In 2010, he was appointed chief curator of this department, succeeding Joe Cribb. As chief curator, Attwood was responsible for the department's acquisition program. During his tenure, notable acquisitions included a gold medal by British sculptor Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934) and a significant donation by his departmental colleague Marion Archibald, which was realized following her death in 2016. Attwood specialized in the Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Burnett
Andrew Michael Burnett, (born 23 May 1952) is a British numismatist and museum curator, who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013, and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 to 2003. He was president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013 to 2018. Early life and education Burnett was born on 23 May 1952 to Margaret and Sir John Harrison Burnett. He was educated at Fettes College, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied '' Literae Humaniores'' (ancient history and philosophy) at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He continued his studies at the Institute of Archaeology, graduating from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Career In 1974, Burnett joined the British Museum as a research assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals. He was made assistant keeper in 1979, promoted to deputy keeper in 1990, before finally serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jones (museum Director)
Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones (born 5 February 1951) is a British art historian, numismatist and museum director. He was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2001 to 2011, and then master of St Cross College, Oxford from 2011 to 2016. Early life Jones was born on 5 February 1951. He is the son of John Ernest Powell-Jones (or Powell-Jones) and writer/historian, Ann Paludan, and grand nephew of actor Robert Newton. He was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford. He then undertook postgraduate studies in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree. Career Jones spent 18 years in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, where he curated the exhibition ''FAKE? The Art of Deception.'' In 1992, he was appointed director of the National Museums of Scotland. He oversaw the creation in 1998 of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (numismatist)
John Philip Cozens Kent, (28 September 1928 – 22 October 2000) was a British numismatist and archaeologist. He was born the son of a railway official in Hertfordshire and educated at Minchenden Grammar School and University College, London, where he was awarded a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1951. After two years National Service he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals. There his main interest was the coins of the late Roman period, contributing to the reference book on ''Late Roman Bronze Coinage'' which was published in 1960. Other work covered the reclassification of imitative early medieval coins of the 5th century, assisting on the dating of the Sutton Hoo burial ship and the use of gold coinage in the late Roman Empire. However his major published works were Volume VIII and X in the ''Roman Imperial Coinage'' series. Volume VIII, published in 1981, covered the period from the death of the Emperor Constantine in AD 337 to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carson (numismatist)
Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, FBA (7 April 1918 – 24 March 2006) was a British numismatist. Life and career Robert Carson was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy, He was awarded a first in classics at the University of Glasgow, where one of his teachers was Professor Anne S. Robertson, curator at the Hunterian Museum and a specialist in Roman coins. He served in the Royal Artillery in north-west Europe, rising to captain. He married in 1949 and had two children. In 1947, he joined the British Museum's department of coins and medals as an assistant keeper. This continued his engagement with classics, and he learned Roman numismatics under the guidance of Harold Mattingly. In 1965 he was appointed deputy keeper. He became a leading expert on Roman coins, and rose to Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum from 1978 to 1983. He entered the museum's Roman coins on to its first computer database, a record which provided the basis for the Roman coin entries on the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walker (numismatist)
John Walker, CBE, FBA, FSA (4 September 1900 – 12 November 1964) was a Scottish numismatist. He was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum from 1952 to his death in 1964; there, he was responsible for initiating the modern catalogue of the museum's Islamic coins. Early life Born in Glasgow, Walker was the son of a carpenter. He attended the John Street School and the Whitehill School; he was briefly in the army during the end of the First World War and, on demobilisation in 1918, went up to the University of Glasgow; in 1922, he graduated with a first-class MA in Semitic languages. He then completed a teaching diploma at Jordanhill Training College before spending three years (1924–27) teaching at St Andrew's Boys School in Egypt. He returned to the University of Glasgow in 1927 as an assistant lecturer in Arabic, but then spent another three years in Egypt (1928–31), this time in the Ministry of Education.E. S. G. Robinson"John Walker, 1900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Robinson (numismatist)
Sir Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, FBA (1887–1976), usually known as Sir Stanley Robinson, was a numismatist specializing in Greek and Roman coins. He served as Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum."Sir Edward Robinson Authority on Greek Coins." The Times (London). June 15, 1976; p. 16. Biography Robinson studied at Clifton College, Bristol, and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the British School in Athens from 1910 to 1911, and subsequently worked at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum starting in 1912. He enlisted in the army in 1914 but was wounded in combat in France. After a period at the Home Office, he returned to the British Museum and eventually became Deputy Keeper in 1936. In 1949, he assumed the position of Keeper (Head) of the Department, serving until 1952. He was then appointed Reader in Numismatics, at the University of Oxford, and advised art collector Calouste Gulbenkian on his numismatic collection which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Allan (numismatist)
John Allan, (8 August 1884 – 29 August 1955) was a British numismatist and scholar of Sanskrit. Allan was a noted numismatist and produced the first systematic study of the coins the Gupta Empire, which remains a standard reference today. Biography Allan was born in Bolton, East Lothian. His father, John Gray Allan, was the local schoolmaster. John had 2 sons John Gray Allan, (b:1915 Finchley, Middlesex) and James Law Allan (b:1918 Finchley, Middlesex). After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and Leipzig, Allan took up a position at the British Museum in 1907, eventually becoming the Keeper of thDepartment of Coins and Medalsin 1931. He was also a lecturer in Sanskrit at University College London, 1907–1917, then at the School of Oriental Studies, 1920–1922, and after his retirement from the British Museum, at the University of Edinburgh, 1949–1955. Allan was an active member of many learned societies. He was Secretary of the Royal Numismatic Society for almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Francis Hill
Sir George Francis Hill, KCB, FBA (22 December 1867 – 18 October 1948) was the director and principal librarian of the British Museum (1931–1936). He was a specialist in Renaissance medals. Early years George Hill was born in Berhampur, India. His grandfather, Micaiah Hill, founded the London Missionary Society's outpost there and his father, Samuel John Hill, was stationed where George was born. He attended Blackheath College (later known as Eltham College) followed by University College, London, and finally Merton College, Oxford. He studied under Percy Gardner at Merton, taking a first class degree in classics. There he also gained an interest in numismatics. He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1915. Career In 1893, Hill joined the British Museum in the Coins and Medals Department. At that time, the department was the centre of study of Greek coins. Hill continued the work of Barclay Head and Reginald Poole; in 1897 was published the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay Vincent Head
Barclay Vincent Head (c. 1844–1914) was a British numismatist and keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.Barclay Head Dictionary of Art Historians, retrieved July 2014 Life Head started work at the British Museum in 1864. He rose to be keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the (1893 to 1906). He published over many years eight of the thirty book catalogue of the museum's Greek coins. He also published a standard work on the subject which went to a second edition. After his death, in his honour and in recognition of his work, his friends set up the Head Prize for Ancient Numismatics. Hon ...
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Reginald Stuart Poole
Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family; his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane and his nephew Stanley Lane-Poole were all famous for their work in this field. His other uncle was Richard James Lane, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver. Life Born in London, Poole was the son of the Rev. Edward Poole, a well-known bibliophile. His parents became estranged during his early childhood, and his mother, Sophia Lane Poole, took her sons to Egypt to live with her brother, the Orientalist Edward William Lane. During their seven-year residence in Cairo from 1842 to 1849, Lane Poole wrote ''The Englishwoman in Egypt'', while her son was imbibing an early taste for Egyptian antiquities. In 1852 he became an assistant in the British Museum and was assigned to the Department of Coins and Medals, of which in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
