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The Society is delighted to announce that registration is now open for its upcoming Summer Symposium, to take place on Saturday 6th September at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A variety of speakers, including a number of early career and emerging scholars, will deliver papers on innovative new research into Roman coin finds from Britain.

Follow this link to our Eventbrite page to book your place: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coinage-in-roman-britain-new-perspectives-and-the-way-forward-tickets-1353579876849?aff=oddtdtcreator

General admission: £23.50 in-person attendance / £5.00 online
Students: free
Refreshments, a buffet lunch, and a drinks reception in the Ashmolean’s Money Gallery are included for in-person attendees.

Programme of sessions and speakers

Session 1: 10:30–12:30
10:30–11:05: Sam Moorhead, ‘Dr Malcolm Lyne – a life in archaeology and numismatics’
11:05–11:40: Anni Byard (University of Leicester), ‘The impact of Rome on British coin hoarding c. 50 BC–AD 96’
11:40–12:15: Murray Andrews (University College London), ‘Conquest and collaboration? The Worcestershire Conquest hoard (tpq AD 55) in context’
12:15–12:30: Session 1 Q&A
 

12:30–13:30: Lunch (sandwich lunch provided)

Session 2: 13:30–15:00
13:30–14:05: Tasha Fullbrook (University of Reading), ‘“Not so barbarous after all!”: New perspectives on the barbarous radiate coinage phenomenon in Roman Britain’
14:05–14:40: Susan Walker (University of Warwick), ‘Late Roman imitations at the sanctuary of Uley and related sites: new insights and approaches’
14:40–15:00: Session 2 Q&A

15:00–15:30: Tea and coffee break

Session 3: 15:30-17:00
15:30–16:00: Stephanie Bonnici (Kings College London), ‘Settlement and connectivity on Roman Vectis: the potential of PAS-recorded coinage on the Isle of Wight’
16:00–16:30: Roger Bland, summing up
16:30–16:40: Session 3 Q&A
16:40–16:45: Final words from the President
16:45–17:00: End

17:00–19:00 Drinks Reception
Including drinks, cheese, and charcuterie (vegan options available) in the Money Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum

The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is the UK’s foremost society for numismatics – the study of coins, medals and related currency items. Founded in 1836 as The Numismatic Society of London, today’s Society is international in subject and membership. Its lectures and publications deal with Classical, Asian, Medieval and Modern coins, paper money, tokens and medals. Fellows include scholars and enthusiasts from around the world.

Our annual lecture series runs from October to June, with December and June meetings usually set aside for the Medallist and Presidential addresses, and February for the Early Career Lectures. For our 2024-2025 series we would like to adopt a new approach to reach a broader and more diverse numismatic audience, partly reflecting the success of similar calls for our Early Career Lectures.

The RNS is therefore issuing a Call for Papers to encourage anyone engaged with the study of numismatics in its broadest sense to offer a Lecture during our 2024-2025 Lecture programme. Our lectures in 2024-2025 will take place at the Royal Asiatic Society (London) and on Zoom.

What

We would love to hear from you if:

• You are engaged in the study of numismatics in its widest sense;
• Are working on a research project with numismatic focus;
• Are engaged with numismatic collections in the heritage, museums, or archaeological sectors.

Who

Submissions are welcomed from:

• Students, early career professionals, academics, numismatists, those engaged in the study of money and medals in all their forms;
• Archaeologists working with numismatic material/coins as archaeological objects;
• International colleagues (some lectures will take place over Zoom).

The RNS supports diversity in numismatic research – feel free to email Andrew if you have any questions about this call.

How

Please send a short proposal by 15^th September 2024 to Andrew Brown at: abrown@britishmuseum.org, with:

• Name
• Job title and institutional affiliation (optional)
• Contact details
• Title
• Short abstract (up to 250 words)
• Short personal biography (up to 100 words)
• Dates in the Lecture series you might be available to speak (15^th October, 19^th November (Zoom only), 21^st January, 18^th March, 15^th April, and 20^th May)

Please circulate this information to anyone who you think might be interested in this opportunity.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Royal Numismatic Society supports the next generation of numismatists and will host two lectures by the early career community in February 2025.

What

We would love to hear about your:

• Numismatic studies and research at university or in the museums and heritage sector;

• Numismatic research project; or

• Cataloguing, display, or public engagement projects featuring museum numismatic collections.

Who

Submissions are welcomed from:

• Students, early career professionals (if you think you’re early career, we are flexible in our definition!), or people who have recently begun working with numismatics;

• Archaeologists working with numismatic material/coins as archaeological objects;

• International colleagues (the lectures will take place over Zoom).

The RNS supports diversity in numismatic research – feel free to email Courtney if you have any questions about this call.

How

Please send a short proposal by Friday 31 May 2024 to Courtney Nimura at: courtney.nimura@ashmus.ox.ac.uk, with:

• Name

• Job title and institutional affiliation (optional)

• Contact details

• Title

• Short abstract (up to 250 words)

• Short personal biography (up to 100 words)

Please circulate this information to anyone who you think might be interested in this opportunity.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We were very pleased to award the society’s medal to Prof. Sakuraki when he visited the U.K. in December.

Martin Allen presenting the medal to Prof. Sakuraki at the December meeting, held at the Society of Antiquaries

Prof. Sakuraki was kind enough to provide a copy of his acceptance speech for our website:

“It is a great honour for me, as a Japanese, to receive the Royal Numismatic Society medal for 2023, and I would humbly like to express my deep gratitude. When I first received the email informing me of the award, I did wonder, for a moment, if it was a practical joke, but when I realized it was not a joke, I was bowled over. For my work to receive this accolade from the Royal Numismatic Society is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me in my forty or so years as a researcher. 

I have seen the list of past winners and they are all famous numismatists, which leads me to doubt whether a humble historian of Japanese coinage belongs among them. However, this award will stimulate me to further endeavours and in that spirit I am very happy to accept it. My wife often teases me saying, ‘You may be studying money, but you don’t actually make much!’, so I am hoping that my domestic reputation will be enhanced when I return with this medal. To all those who took part in the decision to award me this medal I offer my heartfelt thanks.”

Saturday, 14th October 2023; Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge

This one-day seminar, convened to coincide with the retirement of RNS President, Dr Martin Allen, from the Fitzwilliam Museum, brings together experts in numismatics and monetary history for a day of fascinating papers. Speakers will present new research on medieval and early modern money drawing on databases and metal detector finds, metals analysis, coin hoards, and written sources. For further details, please contact Richard Kelleher at rmk34@cam.ac.uk. To book tickets, click here. 

Programme:

Arrival and registration.

10.20. Introduction/welcome (Luke Syson and Richard Kelleher)

Session 1. Chaired by Elina Screen

10.30. Andrew Woods – ‘The Corpus of Early Medieval Coins Finds and English gold shillings’

10.50. Rory Naismith – ‘New Silver in the Seventh Century’

11.10. Jonathan Jarrett – ‘”All That Glitters”: Problems with XRF Analysis of Byzantine Gold Coinage’

11.40. William R. Day Jr – ‘Foreign coins in English shipwreck treasures during the Edwardian period’

Session 2. Chaired by Richard Kelleher

12.00. Barrie Cook – ‘The social context of medieval English hoards’

12.30–14.00 – Lunch break

14.00. Murray Andrews – ‘Medieval and Tudor coin finds from English and Welsh churches’

14.20. Megan Gooch – ‘The Tudor mint and archaeological finds at the Tower’

14.40. Svein Gullbekk – ‘Medieval money and digital currencies’

15.00–15.30 – Coffee break

Session 3. Chaired by D’Maris Coffman

15.30. Chris Briggs – ‘Extortion and the money economy in early fourteenth-century Lincolnshire’

15.50. Tony Moore – ‘The “Allen anomaly”: Using foreign exchange rates to track gold-silver ratios in early fifteenth century Europe’

16.10. Craig Muldrew – ‘The Flow of Coins in the Possession of the attorney John Plumbe of Wavertree Hall in the 1740s’

16.30. Closing remarks (Martin Allen)

This event has been made possible thanks to generous financial support from the British Numismatic Society, the UK Numismatic Trust, CNG Coins, Noonans, and Spink and Son Ltd.