Martin Jessop Price

Martin Jessop Price (born March 27, 1939 in London , † April 29, 1995 ibid) was a British numismatist .

Martin Price attended King's School in Canterbury and studied at Queen's College , Cambridge , where he received his doctorate in 1967. From 1966 he worked as an assistant at the coin cabinet of the British Museum , from 1978 as deputy director. From September 1994 until his death he was the director of the British School at Athens .

Martin Price's research area was Greek coinage. His dissertation with Edward Robinson dealt with the beginning of the Greek bronze coins. With the Asyut hoard, he and Nancy M. Wagoner presented one of the most important finds of archaic Greek coins; his book on Alexander coins is fundamental for the minting of this ruler.

Publications (selection)

• with Nancy M. Wagoner: Archaic Greek Coinage. The Asyut Hoard. Vecchi, London 1975.
• with Bluma L. Trell : Coins and their Cities. Architecture on the Ancient Coins of Greece, Rome and Palestine. Vecchi, London 1977.
• with Ian Carradice: Coinage in the Greek World. Seaby, London 1988.
• The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. A British Museum catalog. 2 volumes. British Museum Press, London / Swiss Numismatic Society, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-908103-00-2 .

literature

• Roger Bland : Obituary Martin Price. In: The Independent , May 4, 1995, ( digitized version ).
• Silvia Hurter : Martin Jessop Price. In: Schweizer Münzblätter . Vol. 45, issue 179/180, 1995, p. 89 .
• Richard Ashton, Silvia Hurter (Ed.): Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price. Spink, London 1998, ISBN 0-907605-95-8 .
• Stefan Krmnicek: Price, Martin Jessop. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1019 f.