David Michael Metcalf

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David Michael Metcalf ( May 8, 1933 - October 25, 2018 ) was a British numismatist .

Metcalf received his PhD from Oxford University with a dissertation on medieval money circulation in the Balkans . From 1963 he worked at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , from 1971 "assistant keeper" for Byzantine and early medieval coins, and from 1982 to 1999 he was head of the Heberden Coin Room. He also became the first professor of numismatics at Oxford University at Wolfson College in 1996 , where he has held the title of professor emeritus since his retirement .

His main focus was in the early and high Middle Ages, Byzantium , the Crusader states and the Balkans. He wrote several monographs and numerous articles. For ten years he headed the editorial department of The Numismatic Chronicle of the Royal Numismatic Society and served as its president from 1994 to 1999.

In 1983 he received the “John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal” from the British Numismatic Society , in 1987 the Medal from the Royal Numismatic Society and in 1991 the Huntington Medal from the American Numismatic Society . In 2007 he became an honorary member of the Royal Numismatic Society and received the Meshorer Numismatic Prize of the Israel Museum and in 2008 the Derek Allen Prize of the British Academy . He has received further awards in France, the Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus and Norway.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary - Michael Metcalf. In: Yorkshire Numismatic Society. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ Wijbrand op den Velde: In Memoriam Michael Metcalf . In: De Beeldenaar . tape 49 (2019) , no. 1 , p. 41 .
  3. ^ Colin M. Kraay and Carol HV Sutherland: The Ashmolean The Heberden Coin Room Origin and Development. Ashmolean Museum, 2001, accessed January 6, 2019 .