A new variety of a Edward III halfpenny from the Reading mint is described.
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Short Cross Coins from the Rhuddlan mint.
Numismatic researcher and publisher Gerry Slevin is preparing a new publication on the short cross coins of the Rhuddlan mint. He is looking for images of good quality coins of the Rhuddlan mint that he can include in his die study. Anyone willing to assist by providing images, that they are happy to have published, should please contact Gerry directly at gerryslevin@virginmedia.com Thanks for any assistance.
Lord Stewartby – The Numismatic Legacy
The British Numismatic Society, The Royal Numismatic Society with the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Committee Joint Summer Meeting, 28 June 2019 at the British Academy, London. Lord Stewartby (1935-2018) was among the leading figures in British numismatic scholarship in the second half of the twentieth century. He published over two hundred papers and was a major contributor both to the development of what became the Medieval European Coinage publication project at Cambridge and other widely regarded publications. His interests ranged across the Romano-British coinage of the London mint, Anglo-Saxon and Viking coinage, medieval English coinage as well as Scottish coinage, the latter being a field in which he was pre-eminent both as a collector and as a scholar. This all day Symposium on 28 June at the British Academy comprises a series of papers by leading figures who place the use of numismatic evidence at the forefront of historical and archaeological interpretation. Structured around topics with which Lord Stewartby was deeply engaged with it will
The John Casey Fund
The purpose of the fund, financed from a generous bequest to the British Numismatic Society by the late John Casey FSA (d.2016), Reader in Archaeology at the university of Durham, is to provide grants for research by individuals into the coins, medals, tokens, jettons and paper money of the British Isles, the British Commonwealth and other territories that have been subject to British rule. It is envisaged that the annual sum of money available for distribution from the fund will be around £3000 and that within that total each grant made will normally be for a sum of not less than £500. Applications will be particularly welcomed from younger scholars enrolled with higher education institutions, although applications from independent scholars and from other researchers will also be considered favourably. Purposes for which grants will be made may include travel costs, the acquisition of specialist software, the costs of metallurgical analysis and of image reproduction, and similar expenses directly related to
The Recent Finds of Two Late Coins of London from the Long Cross Series in the Name of Henry III – Bob Thomas
Two previously undescribed Henry III long cross pennies are described and discussed. Both are late coins of Renavd of London, issued posthumously in the early years of the reign of Edward I. Click here to access the article. Scroll down this page in order to comment on the article.
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