The Gunnar Holst Medal is awarded annually to distinguished scholars of

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s. It is awarded by the Gunnar Holst Numismatic Foundation of Göteborg, Sweden. It is named after Gunnar Holst, a numismatist who specialised in Islamic coins.Hendin Receives 2013 Medal from Gunnar Holst Foundation for Numismatics, in Coins Weekly, 6 June 2013 accessed 15 Jan 2019
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Recipients of the Gunnar Holst medal

* 1991

Gert Rispling Gert is a mainly masculine given name ( short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.) with some female bearers (short for Gertrude). Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census, so the name is becoming ...

, Stockholm * 1992

Patrick Bruun Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...

, Helsingfors * 1993 Philip Grierson, Cambridge * 1994

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 Institu ...

, Athens * 1995

Kolbjørn Skaare Kolbjørn Skaare (6 April 1931 – 3 June 2017) was a Norwegian numismatist. Early and personal life Skaare was born on 6 April 1931 in Strinda (in current Trondheim) to Sevald Skaare and Thora Rogne, and grew up in Vang, Hedmark, where his fat ...

, Oslo * 1996 Christian J. Simensen, Oslo * 1997 Ulla Westermark, Stockholm * 1998 Kenneth Jonsson, Stockholm * 1999 Bertel Tingström, Uppsala * 2000 Lars O. Lagerqvist, Stockholm * 2001 Rune Ekre, Svenshögen, and Ioannis Touratsoglou, Athens * 2002 Brita Malmer, Lidingö * 2003 Peter Robert Franke, Munich * 2004

Henrik Klackenberg Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estonian), Heikk ...

, Stockholm * 2005

Peter Spufford Peter Spufford, (18 August 1934 – 18 November 2017) was a British historian and academic, specialising in the economics of Medieval Europe. He was Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Cambridge. Early life and education ...

, Cambridge * 2006 Ian Wiséhn, Stockholm * 2007

Vera Hatz Vera Hatz (1923 - 2010) was a German numismatist, who specialised in medieval European coinage, in particular that of the tenth and eleventh centuries in northern Europe. She was jointly awarded the Royal Numismatic Society Medal, as well as the ...

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Gert Hatz Vera Hatz (1923 - 2010) was a German numismatist, who specialised in medieval European coinage, in particular that of the tenth and eleventh centuries in northern Europe. She was jointly awarded the Royal Numismatic Society Medal, as well as the ...

, Eutin * 2008

Lucia Travaini Lucia Travaini (born 1953) is an Italian numismatist, archaeologist, and academic. She is Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Numismatics at the University of Milan. Life Travaini studied archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She ...

, Rome * 2009

Michael Metcalf David Michael Metcalf (8 May 1933 – 25 October 2018) was a British academic and numismatist. He was the director of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum, a fellow of Wolfson College and Professor of Numismatics at the University of ...

, Oxford * 2010

, Norrtälje * 2011 Mark Blackburn (numismatist), Cambridge * 2012 Carmen Arnold Biucchi, Cambridge, USA * 2013

David Hendin David Bruce Hendin (born December 16, 1945) is an expert American numismatist specializing in ancient Jewish and Biblical coins and their archaeology. Throughout his career, Hendin has also been known as a medical journalist, newspaper columnist, ...

, New York, and Rolf Sandström, Lindome * 2014

Cécile Morrisson Cécile Morrisson (born 16 June 1940) is a French historian and numismatist. She is Director of Research emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research and specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire. Biography Cécile Morr ...

, Paris * 2015 Ernst Nordin, Stockholm * 2016 Bengt Holmén, Göteborg * 2017

Michel Amandry Michel Amandry (born in 1949) is a French numismatist. Career Michel Amandry, the son of the archaeologist Pierre Amandry, studied in Strasbourg and Paris, where in 1979 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne. From 1991 to September 2013 he ...

, Paris * 2018 Tuukka Talvio, Helsingfors

References

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