Royal Numismatic Society Announced an October 2023 Cambridge Seminar on 7th-18th Century Money

This article is based on a notice published by The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) on September 12, 2023. At the time of the notice, the event had not yet taken place, and the notice does not report what was said or found at the seminar.

On September 12, 2023, The Royal Numismatic Society announced a one-day seminar, "Money, Methods, Sources," on new research in numismatics and monetary history from the 7th to the 18th centuries. It was scheduled for Saturday, October 14, 2023, in the Nihon Room at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Purpose of the seminar

According to the notice, the seminar was convened to coincide with the retirement of RNS President Dr Martin Allen from the Fitzwilliam Museum. It brings together experts in numismatics and monetary history to present new research on medieval and early modern money.

The notice says the speakers would draw on databases and metal detector finds, metals analysis, coin hoards and written sources.

The programme

The programme listed in the notice was as follows.

- Introduction and welcome: Luke Syson and Richard Kelleher - Session 1 (chaired by Elina Screen) - Andrew Woods, "The Corpus of Early Medieval Coins Finds and English gold shillings" - Rory Naismith, "New Silver in the Seventh Century" - Jonathan Jarrett, "'All That Glitters': Problems with XRF Analysis of Byzantine Gold Coinage" - William R. Day Jr, "Foreign coins in English shipwreck treasures during the Edwardian period" - Session 2 (chaired by Richard Kelleher) - Barrie Cook, "The social context of medieval English hoards" - Murray Andrews, "Medieval and Tudor coin finds from English and Welsh churches" - Megan Gooch, "The Tudor mint and archaeological finds at the Tower" - Svein Gullbekk, "Medieval money and digital currencies" - Session 3 (chaired by D'Maris Coffman) - Chris Briggs, "Extortion and the money economy in early fourteenth-century Lincolnshire" - Tony Moore, "The 'Allen anomaly': Using foreign exchange rates to track gold-silver ratios in early fifteenth century Europe" - Craig Muldrew, "The Flow of Coins in the Possession of the attorney John Plumbe of Wavertree Hall in the 1740s" - Closing remarks: Martin Allen

Supporters

The notice says the event was made possible by financial support from the British Numismatic Society, the UK Numismatic Trust, CNG Coins, Noonans, and Spink and Son Ltd. Enquiries were directed to Richard Kelleher.

Source: The Royal Numismatic Society, "Money, Methods, Sources: New research in Numismatics and Monetary History (7th-18th centuries)" (September 12, 2023).