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The Fishpool Hoard of mediaeval coins, northern England, late 15th century AD. The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. [1]
The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections.
British Museum: Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients from circ. 700 B.C. to 1 A.D. Second edition (London, 1881). [This is the second edition of the Guide published under a different title in 1880; it appeared in six "issues," each containing the whole text but only a portion of the 70 plates.
The coin first came to scholarly attention in 1814, when it was included in a catalog of coins in the British Museum. Scholars attributed the coin's origin as Gaza, but its precise provenance is unknown. [15] When first published in 1814, the coin was described as bearing Phoenician text, largely due to its stylistic similarities with ...
63 coins were given to the British Museum and the Colchester and Ipswich Museums. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 2 ] The rest of the hoard is set to be sold by auction house Noonans Mayfair on 18 September 2024, with an estimate of 75000 GBP, the proceeds to be split between Ridgway and Helmingham Hall's owners.
The Cunetio Hoard, also known as the Mildenhall Hoard, [1] is the largest hoard of Roman coins found in Britain. It was discovered in 1978 at the site of the Roman town of Cunetio, near modern-day Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and consisted of 54,951 low value coins. The coins were contained in a large pot and a lead container. [2]
Andrew Michael Burnett, CBE, FSA, FBA (born 23 May 1952) is a British numismatist and museum curator, who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013, and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 to 2003. [1] [2] He was president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013 to 2018. [3]
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.