Martin Allen, FSA, is a British numismatist and historian, specialising in medieval English coinage. Allen is the Senior Assistant Keeper of Numismatics at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Education and career

Martin Allen earned his Ph.D. at

Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_chan ...

, with a thesis in archaeology, focusing on the Durham mint. He joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1997, where he looked after the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC). He is affiliated with Wolfson College, where he serves as lecturer in the Faculty of History, teaching numismatics and medieval monetary history; he also serves as a College Research Associate. He has an extensive publication record, for which he was awarded a Doctor of Letters (LittD) in 2013. Allen is the Vice President of the British Numismatic Society and editor of the '' British Numismatic Journal'', and Vice President of the Royal Numismatic Society.

Awards and honours

Allen received the

Sanford Saltus Gold Medal The John Sanford Saltus Medal is the premier distinction of the British Numismatic Society The British Numismatic Society (BNS) is an organisation for promoting and realization of the study of British coins and medals. It was founded in 1903. P ...

of the British Numismatic Society in 2011. In addition, he has also received the North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society twice, once in 2006 for ''The Durham Mint''. and again in 2014 for ''Mints and Money in Medieval England''.

Selected works

Allen has published several works in the field of numismatology, focusing especially on

England in the Middle Ages England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the Early Modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the eco ...

. His works include the following:

Books

* ''The Durham Mint'', British Numismatic Society Special Publication 4 (London, 2003) * ''Mints and Money in Medieval England'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) * ''Money and its Use in Medieval Europe Three Decades On. Essays in Honour of Professor Peter Spufford'', edited with N. Mayhew, Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 52 (London, 2017)

Articles

* "The Calais mint and the wool trade", in M. Allen and N. Mayhew (eds), ''Money and its Use in Medieval Europe Three Decades On. Essays in Honour of Professor Peter Spufford'', Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 52 (London, 2017), pp. 31−42. * "Medieval merchants and the English mints", in M. Allen and M. Davies (eds), ''Medieval Merchants and Money. Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton'' (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2016), pp. 197−212. * "A thirteenth-century enquiry into the administration of the Bury St Edmunds mint", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 80 (2010), pp. 189–93. * "Monthly mint output figures for the coinage of Richard III", Numismatic Chronicle 169 (2009), pp. 213–15. * "The proportions of the denominations in English mint outputs, 1351–1485", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 77 (2007), pp. 190–209. * "The Cambridge mint after the Norman Conquest", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 166 (2006), pp. 237–44. * "The English currency and the commercialization of England before the Black Death", in ''Medieval Money Matters'', edited by D. Wood (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004), pp. 31–50. * "English coin hoards, 1158–1544", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 72 (2002), pp. 24–84. * "Ecclesiastical mints in thirteenth-century England", in ''Thirteenth Century England VIII: Proceedings of the Durham Conference 1999'', edited by M. Prestwich, R. Britnell and R. Frame (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001), pp. 113–22. * "The volume of the English currency, 1158–1470", ''Economic History Review'', 2nd series, 54 (2001), pp. 595–611. * "The volume and composition of the English silver currency, 1279–1351", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 70 (2000), pp. 38–44. * "Documentary evidence for the Henry VI Annulet coinage of York", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 65 (1995), pp. 120–34. * "The Durham mint before Boldon Book", in D. Rollason, M. Harvey and M. Prestwich (eds), ''Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093–1193'' (Woodbridge, 1994), pp. 381–98. * "The provision and use of Short Cross class V dies", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 59 (1989), pp. 46–76. * "The Carlisle and Durham mints in the Short Cross period", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 49 (1979), pp. 42–55.

References

External links

Fitzwilliam Museum staff page

Martin Allen, Money and Medals Network

Martin Allen, Digital Library Numis
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