Honorary Fellowship is awarded to Fellows of the Society who have made a particularly important contribution to numismatics, and is for life. There are usually around 25 Honorary Fellows at any given time.
Current Honorary Fellows of the RNS
- 1994 Neil Kreitman
- 1994 Raymond Weiller
- 1998 Leslie Elam
- 1999 Basil Demetriadi
- 2001 Graham Dyer
- 2001 Michael Mitchiner
- 2002 Christoph Boehringer
- 2002 Richard Reece
- 2009 Sir Mark Jones
- 2012 Donal Bateson
- 2013 Keith Sugden
- 2013 Stan Goron
- 2014 John Morcom
- 2014 Philip Skingley
- 2015 Joe Bispham
- 2016 Richard Ashton
- 2017 Andrew Oddy
- 2020 Marcus Phillips
- 2020 Susan Tyler-Smith
- 2021 Frances Simmons
- 2021 Howard Simmons
- 2025 Gul Rahim Khan
Alphabetical List of All Honorary Fellows of the RNS (1904-)
| Alföldi, Andreas (1895-1981) | 1930 |
| Archibald, Marion (1935-2016) | 1996 |
| Ashton, Richard | 2016 |
| Babelon, Jean (1889-1978) | 1946 |
| Barb, Alphons A. (1901-1979) | 1957 |
| Barker, Eileen | 1990 |
| Bastien, Pierre (1912-2010) | 1957 |
| Bateson, Donal | 2012 |
| Bellinger, Alfred Raymond (1893-1978) | 1965 |
| Bendall, Simon | 2010 |
| Berghaus, Peter (1919-2012) | 1995 |
| Bispham, Joe | 2015 |
| Boehringer, Christoph | 2002 |
| Bolin, Anders Store Ragnar (1900-1963) | 1960 |
| Breglia, Laura (1912-2003) | 1964 |
| Buttrey, Theodore ‘Ted’ Vern Jr. (1929-2018) | 2017 |
| Cargill-Thompson (Warren), Jennifer (1931-2016) | 2010 |
| Carson, Robert Andrew Glendinning (1918-2006) | 1980 |
| Castelin, Karel (1903-1981) | 1968 |
| Cesano, Secondina Lorenza Eugenia (1879-1973) | 1935 |
| Delbrueck, Richard (1874-1957) | 1952 |
| Demetriadi, Basil | 1999 |
| Dieudonné, Adolphe (1868-1945) | 1926 |
| Dyer, Graham | 2001 |
| Elam, Leslie | 1998 |
| Forrer, Leonard (1869-1953) | 1939 |
| Galster, Georg (1889-1983) | 1937 |
| Gerassimov, Todor (1903-1974) | 1963 |
| Göbl, Robert (1919-1997) | 1983 |
| Goron, Stan | 2013 |
| Grant, Michael (1914-2004) | 1984 |
| Grierson, Philip (1910-2006) | 1994 |
| Gupta, Parmeshwari Lal (1914-2001) | 1975 |
| H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 1967 |
| Hart, Rev Henry St John (d. 2004) | 1979 |
| Hävernick, Walter (1905-1983) | 1965 |
| Holzmair, Eduard (1902-1971) | 1966 |
| Jenkins, Gilbert Kenneth (1918-2005) | 1980 |
| Jones, Mark | 2009 |
| Khan, Gul Rahim | 2025 |
| Kiersnowski, Ryszard (1926-2006) | 1975 |
| Kreitman, Neil | 1994 |
| Kubitschek, Joseph William (1858-1936) | 1904 |
| Lafaurie, Raymond Jean (1914-2008) | 1976 |
| Laffranchi, Lodovico (1875-1952) | 1932 |
| Le Rider, Georges (1928-2014) | 1995 |
| Llopis, Felipe Mateu Y (1901-1998) | 1951 |
| Loehr, August Oktav von (1882-1965) | 1937 |
| Malmer, Brita (1925-2013) | 1998 |
| Martin, Joan Steel (d.1985) | 1977 |
| Mattingly, Harold (1923-2015) | 2005 |
| Maurice, Jules (1859-1939) | 1904 |
| Merson, Tony | 1999 |
| Metcalf, Michael | 2007 |
| Miles, George Carpenter (1904-1975) | 1966 |
| Mitchiner, Michael | 2001 |
| Morcom, John | 2014 |
| Mosser, Sawyer McArthur (1905-1975) | 1964 |
| Münsterberg, Rudolf (1864-1926) | 1926 |
| Naster, Paul M.F. (1913-1998) | 1974 |
| Noe, Sydney Philip (1885-1969) | 1960 |
| Oddy, Andrew | 2017 |
| Pink, Karl (1884-1965) | 1946 |
| Rasmussen, Nils Ludwig (1904-1973) | 1973 |
| Reece, Richard | 2002 |
| Regling, Kurt Ludwig (1876-1935) | 1932 |
| Robert, Louis (1904-1985) | 1970 |
| Robertson, Anne Strachan (1910-1997) | 1976 |
| Rogers, Very Rev Edgar (1873-1961) | 2058 |
| Rutter, Keith (1939-2024) | 2011 |
| Schultz, H.-D. | 2001 |
| Schwabacher, Wilhelm Heinrich (1897-1972) | 1970 |
| Sellwood, David (1925-2012) | 2004 |
| Serafini, Marchese Camillo (1864-1952) | 1946 |
| Seyrig, Henri (1895-1973) | 1949 |
| Shackleton, D.E. | 1973 |
| Shamma, Samir (d.1992) | 1992 |
| Skingley, Philip | 2014 |
| Stepkova, J. (1926-1997) | 1976 |
| Stevenson, Robert Baron Kerr (1913-1992) | 1979 |
| Sugden, Keith | 2013 |
| Sutherland, Carol Humphrey Vivian (1908-1986) | 1979 |
| Thompson, Margaret Myrtle (1911-1992) | 1976 |
| Thordeman, Bengt (1893-1990) | 1946 |
| Tourneur, Victor (1878-1967) | 1926 |
| Trell, Bluma L. (1903-1997) | 1983 |
| Troxell, Hyla | 1999 |
| Tudeer, Lauri Oskar Theodor (1884-1955) | 1946 |
| Weber, Frederick Parkes (1863-1962) | 1954 |
| Weiller, Raymond J. | 1994 |
| Welin, Ulla Selma Linder (1909-1983) | 1975 |
| Whitting, Philip David (1903-1988) | 1971 |
Fuller details of Honorary Fellows 1904-1986 can be found in A History of the Royal Numismatic Society, pp. 141-143 (pdf here)