Philip de Jersey is a

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and numismatist. He is known as an expert on

Celtic coins Celtic coinage was minted by the Celts from the late 4th century BC to the mid 1st century AD. Celtic coins were influenced by trade with and the supply of mercenaries to the Greeks, and initially copied Greek designs, especially Macedonian coi ...

of the Iron Age.

Life and career

De Jersey was born in Guernsey, and studied Geography at Hertford College, University of Oxford. After graduating he stayed on at Oxford University to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) on the late Iron Age in north-west France. His doctoral thesis was titled " La Tène and early Gallo-Roman north-west France", and his DPhil was awarded in 1992. From 1992 to 2008 de Jersey was employed as keeper of the Oxford University

Celtic Coin Index Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language *Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Foo ...

, and was responsible for the computerisation of the index. During his time in charge of the Celtic Coin Index the number of coins included on the database increased from about 14,000 to about 40,000. De Jersey is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Heberden Coin Room at the

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, and in 1999 was awarded the Council Prize of the British Numismatic Society.

Works

*2014. ''Coin Hoards in Iron Age Britain''. Spink for The British Numismatic Society. *2006. (ed.) ''Celtic coinage: new discoveries, new discussion''. BAR international series no.1532. Archaeopress. *1997. With

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

. ''Armorica and Britain: Cross-Channel Relationships in the Late First Millennium BC''. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. *1996. ''Celtic Coinage in Britain''. Shire Archaeology no.72. Shire Books. *1994. ''Coinage in Iron Age Armorica''. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. *1994. With Robert D. Van Arsdell. ''The Coinage of the Dobunni: Money Supply and Coin Circulation in Dobunnic Territory''. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. *1992. ''La Tene and Early Gallo-Roman North-west France''. University of Oxford.

References

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