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Lhotka Prize
The Lhotka Memorial Prize is a prize awarded to the author of a publication about numismatics which is considered most helpful to the elementary student of numismatics published in the previous two calendar years. The prize was endowed in 1962 by Professor J.F. Lhotka (University of Oklahoma), an honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, in memory of his father, Dr. J.F. Lhotka. Past winners *1963 Robert A.G. Carson (''Coins, Ancient, Medieval and Modern'', London, 1962) *1964 David R. Sear (''Roman Coins and their Value''s, London, 1974) *1965 R.H. Michael Dolley (''Anglo-Saxon Pennies'', London, 1964) and J. Porteous (''Coins'', London, 1964) *1966 Howard W.A. Linecar (''Beginner’s Guide to Coin Collecting'', London, 1966) *1967 Philip D. Whitting (''Coins in the Classroom'', London, 1966) *1969 Anthony Dowle and Patrick Finn (''The Guide Book to the Coinage of Irelan''d, London, 1969) *1970 M.J. Freeman (''The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain'', London, 1970) *1971 P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numismatics
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods. The earliest forms of money used by people are categorised by collectors as "Odd and Curious", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency (e.g., cigarettes or instant noodles in prison). As an example, the Kyrgyz people used horses as the principal currency unit, and gave small change in lambskins; the lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horses are not. Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals, cocoa beans, large stones, and gems. Etymology First attested in English 1829, the word ''numismatics'' comes from the adjective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Numismatic Society
The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Membership Foremost collectors and researchers, both professional and amateur, in the field of numismatics are amongst the fellows of the Society. They must be elected to the Society by the Council. The ''Numismatic Chronicle'' is the annual publication of the Royal Numismatic Society. History The society was founded in 1836 as the Numismatic Society of London and received the title "Royal Numismatic Society" from Edward VII by Royal Charter in 1904. The history of the Society was presented as a series of annual Presidential addresses by R.A. Carson – these were published in the Numismatic Chronicle between 1975 and 1978. The fifth and latest instalment was written to mark the 150th anniversary of the Society in 1986, and the full text was published in 1986 as ''A History of the Royal ... [...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 Glasgow Caledonian University 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Burger (numismatist)
Werner Burger (Chinese name: 布威纳 Bu Weina; 1936 – 15 November 2021) was a German numismatist specialising in Chinese coins of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). He wrote the first PhD on Chinese numismatics. Life Burger was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, in 1936. He studied Chinese at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ... (LMU), graduating in 1962. He went to China in 1963 to teach German language, German in Shanghai. When the school he was teaching at closed down, he was sent to be a sheep farmer. He then moved to British Hong Kong, Hong Kong to research Chinese numismatics. He died in Hong Kong on 15 November 2021. Publications * “Manchu Inscriptions on Chinese Cash Coins”, in ''The American Numismatic Society Mus ... [...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 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Casey (academic)
John Casey (born 1939) is a British academic and a writer for ''The Daily Telegraph''. He has been described as "mentor" to Roger Scruton and is a former lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a former lecturer and a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1975, along with Scruton, he founded the Conservative Philosophy Group. Though not a member of Peterhouse, he has been considered part of the ''Cambridge Right'', which included scholars from Selwyn College, Gonville and Caius College and Christ's College as well. He was editor of ''The Cambridge Review'' between 1975 and 1979. Cambridge John Casey was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St. Brendan's College, Bristol and subsequently at King's College, Cambridge, where he received a First in both parts of the English Tripos. He later returned as a lecturer in English at Gonville and Caius College. Richard Cockett described Casey as a mentor to a whole generation of young Conservativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Price
Martin Jessop Price (27 March 1939 – 28 April 1995) was a British numismatist who was made a Merit Deputy Keeper of the British Museum in 1978, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, 1986-87. In 1992 he was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a firsts in classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics .... In 1961, he won a Greek government scholarship which introduced him to the British School of Athens. In 1966, he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, under Kenneth Jenkins, and was eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cribb
Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects in English. With David Jongeward he published a catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the American Numismatic Society New York in 2015. In 2021 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Numismatics at Hebei Normal University, China. Career Joe Cribb studied Latin, Greek and Ancient History at Queen Mary College, University of London, graduating in 1970. He became a research assistant at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. He eventually rose to be the Keeper of the Coins and Medals (2003–2010), before his retirement in 2010. His work was focused at first on the Chinese coin collection, but later expanded to other aspects of Asian coinage. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Errington
Elizabeth Errington is a specialist on the archaeology of Gandhara and the collections of Charles Masson, and a numismatist specialising in Asian coins. Biography Errington grew up in Potchefstroom in South Africa and gained a diploma at the Johannesburg School of Art in 1967. Subsequently she worked as a graphic designer in South Africa and London. Errington entered the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1977 and gained her B.A. Honours in Near and Middle East History and Archaeology in 1980. Errington then worked part-time on her PhD from 1980-1987 on 19th-century archaeology in Gandhara and Afghanistan entitled: ''The Western Discovery of the Art of Gandhara and the Finds of Jamalgarhi''. Errington worked for the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1988 preparing the catalogue of the Ghubayra Excavations, Iran, for publication. After her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Errington worked on the "Crossroads of Asia" exhibition and catalogue at the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Howgego
Professor Christopher Howgego is a British numismatist and academic, who is the current keeper of the Heberden coin room at the Ashmolean Museum. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics at the University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor .... References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180211/http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/chrishowgego.html British numismatists Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People associated with the Ashmolean Museum Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards For Numismatics
This list of numismatics awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for significant contributions to the field of numismatics. Adna G. Wilde Jr. Memorial for Exemplary Service Administered by the American Numismatic Association—named for Adna G. Wilde Jr, past president of the ANA, the award honors an ANA member who dedicates his or her time and resources to strengthen the hobby and further the educational mission of the ANA, and sets an example for others to follow. Akbar Silver Medal Administered by the Numismatic Society of India. ANA Lifetime Achievement Award Administered by the American Numismatic Association—This award is presented to an individual, family, firm or judicial entity that has made outstanding contributions to organized numismatics ANA Numismatist of the Year Award Administered by the American Numismatic Association—first presented in 1995, the award was established to recognize individuals within the numismatic community who have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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