Christopher Howgego

Christopher John Howgego (* 1957 ) is a British numismatist .

Howgego received his PhD from Oxford University in 1983. In 1988 he joined the Herbeden Coin Room, the numismatic collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and was responsible for the Greek and Roman coins. He has been the head of the coin collection since 2005/06. He is also a professor of Greek and Roman numismatics at the University of Oxford .

Publications (selection)

• Ancient History from Coins. London 1995, ISBN 978-0415089937 .
  • German translation: Money in the ancient world. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1487-5 ; 2nd edition, Von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23940-5 .
• Greek imperial countermarks. Studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire. London 1985, ISBN 0-901405-23-X (dissertation).
• with Volker Heuchert, Andrew Burnett (Ed.): Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford 2005, ISBN 978-0199265268 .

Web links

• Chris Howgego. In: Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved December 29, 2019 . 
• Christopher Howgego. In: Wolfson College, Oxford. University of Oxford, accessed December 29, 2019 .