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'''Martin Allen''', [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]], is a British [[numismatist]] and [[historian]], specialising in medieval English coinage.<ref>{{Cite web|[email protected]|title=Dr Martin Allen , FSA — Department of History of Art|url=https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-martin-allen-fsa|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.hoart.cam.ac.uk|date=9 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2012/02/martin-allen-on-medieval-coinage-and-society/ |title=Martin Allen on Medieval coinage and society &#124; FifteenEightyFour &#124; Cambridge University Press |website=www.cambridgeblog.org |date= 7 February 2012|access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref> Allen is the Senior Assistant Keeper of Numismatics at the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]] in [[Cambridge]], [[United Kingdom]].
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'''Martin Allen''' FSA is a British [[numismatist]] and [[historian]], specialising in medieval English coinage.<ref>https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-martin-allen-fsa Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref> He is Senior Assistant Keeper of Numismatics at the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]], [[Cambridge]].


==Awards and Honours==
==Education and career==
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Martin Allen earned his Ph.D. at [[Durham University]], 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).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dr Martin|title=Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds|url=https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/about|access-date=2021-03-29|website=emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> He is affiliated with [[Wolfson College, Cambridge|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]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Officers and Council - British Numismatic Society|url=https://www.britnumsoc.org/the-society/officers-and-council|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.britnumsoc.org}}</ref> Currently he has the role of President of the [[Royal Numismatic Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-05-23|title=Council|url=https://numismatics.org.uk/about-the-society/council/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=The Royal Numismatic Society}}</ref>
* [[Sanford Saltus Gold Medal]] of the [[British Numismatic Society]], 2011.<ref>http://www.britnumsoc.org/the-society/society-medals Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref>
* North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society 2006, for ''The Durham Mint''.<ref>http://www.britnumsoc.org/prizes-and-funds/prizes Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref>
* North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society 2014, for ''Mints and Money in Medieval England''.<ref>http://www.britnumsoc.org/prizes-and-funds/prizes Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref>


==Awards and honours==
==About==
Allen received the [[Sanford Saltus Gold Medal]] of the [[British Numismatic Society]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Society Medals - British Numismatic Society|url=http://www.britnumsoc.org/the-society/society-medals|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.britnumsoc.org}}</ref> In addition, he has also received the North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society twice, once in 2006 for ''The Durham Mint''.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=Prizes - British Numismatic Society|url=http://www.britnumsoc.org/prizes-and-funds/prizes|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.britnumsoc.org}}</ref> and again in 2014 for ''Mints and Money in Medieval England''.<ref name="auto"/>
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Allen earned his PhD at [[Durham University]], with a thesis in [[archaeology]], focussing on the Durham mint. He joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1997, where he looks after the [https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds] (EMC).<ref>https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/about Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref> He is affiliated with [[Wolfson College, Cambridge|Wolfson College]], where he is Lecturer in the Faculty of History, teaching numismatics and medieval monetary history, and a College Research Associate. He has an extensive publication record, for which he was awarded a LittD (Doctor of Letters) in 2013. He is Vice President of the British Numismatic Society and editor of the [[British Numismatic Journal|''British Numismatic Journal'']],<ref>https://www.britnumsoc.org/the-society/officers-and-council Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref> and Vice President of the [[Royal Numismatic Society]].<ref>https://numismatics.org.uk/about-the-society/council/ Retrieved 28 March 2021.</ref>

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==Selected works==
Allen has published several works in the field of numismatology, focusing especially on [[England in the Middle Ages]]. His works include the following:


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==Selected Publications==
===Books===
===Books===
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* ''The Durham Mint'', British Numismatic Society Special Publication 4 (London, 2003)
* ''Mints and Money in Medieval England'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
* ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Mints_and_Money_in_Medieval_England.html?id=50V_ADVYIz8C&redir_esc=y Mints and Money in Medieval England]'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-107-01494-7}}
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* ''The Durham Mint'', British Numismatic Society Special Publication 4 (London, 2003).
* (ed. with N. Mayhew) ''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.
* ''[https://numismatics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Spufford-Medieval-Europe.pdf 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)

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* (ed. with M. Davies) ''Medieval Merchants and Money. Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton'' (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2016)
* (ed. with D. Coffman) ''Money, Prices and Wages: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew'' (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), pp. 7–23.
* (ed. with R. Naismith and E. Screen) ''Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn'' (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 85–112.
===Articles===
===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.
* "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.&nbsp;31−42.
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* "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.&nbsp;197−212.
* ‘The first Sterling Area’, ''Economic History Review'' 70 (2017), pp. 79−100.
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* "A thirteenth-century enquiry into the administration of the Bury St Edmunds mint", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 80 (2010), pp.&nbsp;189–93.
* ‘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.
* ‘The York local coinage of the reign of Stephen (1135−54)’, ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 176 (2016), pp. 283−318.
* "Monthly mint output figures for the coinage of Richard III", Numismatic Chronicle 169 (2009), pp.&nbsp;213–15.
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* "The proportions of the denominations in English mint outputs, 1351–1485", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 77 (2007), pp.&nbsp;190–209.
* ‘Coin finds and the English money supply, c. 973–1544’, in M. Allen and D. Coffman (eds), ''Money, Prices and Wages: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew'' (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), pp. 7–23.
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* "The Cambridge mint after the Norman Conquest", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 166 (2006), pp.&nbsp;237–44.
* ‘Coin hoards in England and Wales, c. 973–1544’, in J. Naylor and R. Bland (eds), ''Hoarding and the Deposition of Metalwork from the Bronze Age to the 20th Century: a British Perspective'', British Archaeological Reports British Series 615 (Oxford, 2015), pp. 147–65.
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* "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.&nbsp;31–50.
* ‘Currency depreciation and debasement in medieval Europe’, in W. Ernst and D. Fox (eds), ''Money in the Western Legal Tradition'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 41–52.
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* "English coin hoards, 1158–1544", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 72 (2002), pp.&nbsp;24–84.
* ‘Coinage and currency under William I and William II’, in R. Naismith, M. Allen and E. Screen (eds), ''Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn'' (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 85–112.
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* "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.&nbsp;113–22.
* ‘The English Crown and the coinage, 1399–1485’, in L. Clark (ed.), ''The Fifteenth Century XIII'' (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), pp. 183–99.
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* "The volume of the English currency, 1158–1470", ''Economic History Review'', 2nd series, 54 (2001), pp.&nbsp;595–611.
* ‘The mints of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England, 871–1066’, in Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Susan D. Thompson (eds), ''Towns and Topography. Essays in Memory of David H. Hill'' (Oxford: Oxbow, 2014), pp. 68–73.
* ‘The currency and the economy in late medieval England’, ''Yorkshire Numismatist'' 4 (2012), pp. 175–82.
* "The volume and composition of the English silver currency, 1279–1351", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 70 (2000), pp.&nbsp;38–44.
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* "Documentary evidence for the Henry VI Annulet coinage of York", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 65 (1995), pp.&nbsp;120–34.
* ‘Mints and money in Norman England’, in D. Bates (ed.), ''Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV. Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011'' (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012), pp. 1–21.
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* "The Durham mint before Boldon Book", in D. Rollason, M. Harvey and M. Prestwich (eds), ''Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093–1193'' (Woodbridge, 1994), pp.&nbsp;381–98.
* ‘The mints and moneyers of England and Wales, 1066–1158’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 82 (2012), pp. 54–120.
* "The provision and use of Short Cross class V dies", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 59 (1989), pp.&nbsp;46–76.
* ‘The Winchester mint and exchange, 1158–1250’, in M. Biddle (ed.), ''The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961–71'', Winchester Studies 8 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012), pp. 56–65.
* ‘Silver production and the money supply in England and Wales, 1086–c.1500’, ''Economic History Review'' 64 (2011), pp. 114–31.
* "The Carlisle and Durham mints in the Short Cross period", ''British Numismatic Journal'' 49 (1979), pp.&nbsp;42–55.
* ‘The exchanges in the City of London, 1344–1538’, in ''Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress Glasgow 2009'', edited by N. Holmes, 2 vols (Glasgow: International Numismatic Council, 2011), pp. 1355–9.
* ‘The output and profits of the Calais mint, 1349–1450’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 80 (2010), pp. 131–9.
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* ‘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.
* ‘Henry II and the English coinage’, in ''Henry II: New Interpretations'', edited by C. Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), pp. 257–77.
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* ‘The proportions of the denominations in English mint outputs, 1351–1485’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 77 (2007), pp. 190–209.
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* ‘The Cambridge mint after the Norman Conquest’, ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 166 (2006), pp. 237–44.
* ‘The English coinage of 1153/4–1158’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 76 (2006), pp. 242–302.
* ‘The volume of the English currency, c. 973–1158’, in ''Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500–1200. Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald'', edited by B. Cook and G. Williams (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 485–523.
* ‘The fourteenth-century hoard from Chesterton Lane Corner, Cambridge’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 75 (2005), pp. 63–90.
* ‘The interpretation of single-finds of English coins, 1279–1544’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 75 (2005), pp. 50–62.
* ‘The quantity of money in England 1180–1247: new data’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 75 (2005), pp. 44–9.
* ‘The archbishop of York’s mint after the Norman Conquest’, ''Northern History'' 41 (2004), pp. 21–34.
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* ‘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.
* ‘Medieval English die-output’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 74 (2004), pp. 39–49.
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* ‘English coin hoards, 1158–1544’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 72 (2002), pp. 24-84.
* ‘Italians in English mints and exchanges’, in ''Fourteenth Century England II'', edited by C. Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002), pp. 53–62.
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* ‘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.
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* ‘The volume of the English currency, 1158–1470’, ''Economic History Review'', 2nd series, 54 (2001), pp. 595–611.
* ‘Ecclesiastical mints in fifteenth-century England’, ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 160 (2000), pp. 249–59.
* ‘The volume and composition of the English silver currency, 1279–1351’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 70 (2000), pp. 38–44.
* ‘Mint output in the English recoinage of 1247–1250’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 69 (1999), pp. 207–10.
* ‘Documentary evidence for the output, profits and expenditure of the Bury St Edmunds mint’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 69 (1999), pp. 210–13.
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* ‘Documentary evidence for the Henry VI Annulet coinage of York’, ''British Numismatic Journal'' 65 (1995), pp. 120–34.
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* ‘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.


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==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
==External links==
* [https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/users/martin-allen Fitzwilliam Museum staff page]
* [https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/users/martin-allen Fitzwilliam Museum staff page]
* [http://www.moneyandmedals.org.uk/bio-martin-allen/4549665017 Martin Allen, Money and Medals Network]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/digitallibrarynumis/03-index/a-1/allen-martin-r Martin Allen, Digital Library Numis]


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Martin Allen, FSA, is a British numismatist and historian, specialising in medieval English coinage.[1][2] 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, 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).[3] 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.[4] Currently he has the role of President of the Royal Numismatic Society.[5]

Awards and honours

Allen received the Sanford Saltus Gold Medal of the British Numismatic Society in 2011.[6] In addition, he has also received the North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society twice, once in 2006 for The Durham Mint.[7] and again in 2014 for Mints and Money in Medieval England.[7]

Selected works

Allen has published several works in the field of numismatology, focusing especially on England in the Middle Ages. 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) ISBN 978-1-107-01494-7
  • 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ [email protected] (9 July 2015). "Dr Martin Allen , FSA — Department of History of Art". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Martin Allen on Medieval coinage and society | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press". www.cambridgeblog.org. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. ^ Dr Martin. "Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds". emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Officers and Council - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Council". The Royal Numismatic Society. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Society Medals - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Prizes - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
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