Kevin Clancy is a

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

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 min ...

. 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 The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

(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 exists to promote the study and understanding of British numismatics. The Society was founded in 1903, focusing on all forms of coinage, tokens, banknotes and medals relating to the British Isles and former parts ...

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