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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.
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 ...
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.
63 BRITISH MUSEUM; Anglo-Saxon Coins Part I. Early Silver and Gold Coins By A. Gannon 2011 64 GROSVENOR MUSEUM, CHESTER; Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Coins to 1180. By H.E. Pagan 2012 65 NORWEGIAN COLLECTIONS; Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016. By ELINA SCREEN 2013 66. NORWEGIAN COLLECTIONS; Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Later British ...
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.
Coincraft's Standard Catalogue English & UK Coins 1066 to Date (5th ed.). Standard Catalogue Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9526228-8-8. Peck, C. Wilson (1960). English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum 1558–1958. Trustees of the British Museum. OCLC 906173180. Seaby, Peter (1985). The Story of British Coinage. B. A.
The Hoard today in the British Museum. In 1966 the Fishpool Hoard of 1,237 15th century gold coins, four rings and four other pieces of jewellery, and two lengths of gold chain [1] [2] was discovered by workmen on a building site near present-day Cambourne Gardens, in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, England, an area that was then known as "Fishpool".