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Martin Allen FSA is a British numismatist and historian, specialising in Medieval English Coinage.[1][2] He is Senior Assistant Keeper of Numismatics at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Education and career

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[3] (EMC).[4] He is affiliated with Wolfson College, where he is a 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,[5] and Vice President of the Royal Numismatic Society.[6]

Awards and Honours

Selected works

Allen has published several works in the field of numismatology, focusing especially on England in the Middle Ages. His works include, but are not limited to, 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ [email protected]. "Dr Martin Allen , FSA — Department of History of Art". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2012/02/martin-allen-on-medieval-coinage-and-society/ Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Dr Martin. "Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds". emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Officers and Council - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  6. ^ "Council". The Royal Numismatic Society. 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  7. ^ "Society Medals - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  8. ^ a b "Prizes - British Numismatic Society". www.britnumsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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