Martin Allen (numismatist)

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Martin Allen (* 1956 ) is a British numismatist .

Career

He studied at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle from 1975 to 1978 and received his doctorate in 1999 from the University of Durham . 1975-1997 he was employed at the Durham County Library. Even as a schoolchild, however, he had been interested in coins, especially Queen Victoria's pennies, which were still in circulation at the time. As a student he deepened his interest in coins from the Middle Ages.

Since 1997 he has worked at the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, 1997–2003 as Senior Museum Technician, since 2004 as Assistant Keeper of the Coins and Medals Department and since 2007 Senior Assistant Keeper. Martin Allen is curator for medieval and modern coins and medals.

In 2005 he became a Senior Member at Wolfson College , Cambridge . Martin Allen's teaching as a visiting lecturer in the Faculty of History includes a subject and resource courses on Money and Society from Late Antiquity and group classes for undergraduate and graduate students. He also teaches for the Division of Archeology.

Martin Allen oversees the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC), which has gained an international reputation as one of the main sources of research for mediaevalists and archaeologists, and he is the chief editor of the annual British Numismatic Journal .

His research interests focus on English minting from the 12th to the 16th centuries, medieval mint organization, church mints, the analysis of coin finds, and money supply as one of the factors in medieval economic history.

Honors

  • 1996 Council Prize of the British Numismatic Society,
  • 2005 North Book Prize of the British Numismatic Society for the book The Durham Mint (2003),
  • 2011 the Sanford Saltus Gold Medal of the British Numismatic Society, awarded every three years,
  • 2013 Doctor of Letters title.

Publications

  • The Durham Mint (= British Nunismatic Society. Special Publications. 4). Spink, London 2003, ISBN 1-902040-51-1 .
  • Mints and money in Medieval England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2012, ISBN 978-1-10-701494-7 .
  • Numerous articles, especially in the journals Numismatic Chronicle ( ISSN  0078-2696 ) and The British Numismatic Journal ( ISSN  0143-8956 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Allen, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956