Royal Numismatic Society Issued a Call for Papers for Its 2024-25 Lecture Series in August 2024
The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) announced on August 11, 2024, a Call for Papers for its 2024-2025 lecture series, open to anyone engaged in the study of numismatics. Proposals were due by September 15, 2024. The lectures were to take place at the Royal Asiatic Society in London and on Zoom.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, a notice from the Royal Numismatic Society. We removed unsupported claims about market transparency, investment and authentication, lecture themes such as digital methods and X-ray analysis, and descriptions of the membership's regional makeup, and stated the date of the notice (August 11, 2024) and the deadline (September 15, 2024). We also corrected the source name from "Numismatic Chronicle" to the Royal Numismatic Society. The previous headline was "RNS 2024-25 Lecture Series: How Academic Authority Protects Rare Coin Market Integrity."
This article is based on a notice the Royal Numismatic Society posted on its website on August 11, 2024. The application deadline of September 15, 2024, has passed.
The society and its lectures
The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) describes itself as the UK's foremost society for numismatics, the study of coins, medals and related currency items. It was founded in 1836 as The Numismatic Society of London and is now international in subject and membership. Its lectures and publications deal with Classical, Asian, Medieval and Modern coins, paper money, tokens and medals.
The society's annual lecture series runs from October to June. December and June meetings are usually set aside for the Medallist and Presidential addresses, and February for the Early Career Lectures.
The call
For the 2024-2025 series, the society said it wanted to adopt a new approach to reach a broader and more diverse audience, partly reflecting the success of similar calls for its Early Career Lectures. It issued a Call for Papers inviting anyone engaged with the study of numismatics to offer a lecture. The lectures were to take place at the Royal Asiatic Society in London and on Zoom.
The society welcomed submissions from students, early career professionals, academics, numismatists, archaeologists working with coins as archaeological objects, and international colleagues, since some lectures would take place over Zoom.
Applicants were asked to send a short proposal to Andrew Brown by September 15, 2024, including their name, contact details, a title, an abstract of up to 250 words, a biography of up to 100 words, and the dates they could speak. The listed lecture dates were October 15, November 19 (Zoom only), January 21, March 18, April 15 and May 20.
Source: The Royal Numismatic Society, "RNS Call for Papers – 2024-25 lecture series" (August 11, 2024).
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