Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society

The Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society was first awarded in 1883. It is awarded by the Royal Numismatic Society and is one of the highest markers of recognition given to numismatists. The President and Council award the Medal annually to an "individual highly distinguished for services to Numismatic Science".^[1]

In recent years the Medallist has been invited to receive the medal in person and to give a lecture, usually at the Society's December Meeting.

Sir John Evans gave the dies for the original silver medal to the Society in 1883. The current medal was commissioned from Ian Rank-Broadley in 1993 and is a cast silver medal with the classical theme of Heracles and the Nemean lion.^[2]

List of Medallists

Recipients of the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society and their lecture titles (where available) are:^[3]

1883 Charles Roach Smith 1884 Aquilla Smith 1885 Edward Thomas 1886 Alexander Cunningham 1887 John Evans 1888 Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer 1889 Percy Gardner 1890 J.P. Six 1891 C. Ludwig Müller 1892 R. Stuart Poole 1893 W.H. Waddington 1894 Charles Francis Keary 1895 Theodor Mommsen 1896 Frederic W. Madden 1897 Alfred von Sallet 1898 William Greenwell 1899 Ernest Babelon 1900 Stanley Lane-Poole 1901 S.E. Baron Wladimir von Tiesenhausen 1902 Arthur J. Evans 1903 Gustave Schlumberger 1904 His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy 1905 Sir Hermann Weber 1906 Francesco Gnecchi 1907 Barclay V. Head 1908 Heinrich Dressel 1909 Herbert A. Grueber 1910 Friedrich Edler von Kenner 1911 Oliver Codrington 1912 Max von Bahrfeldt 1913 George Macdonald 1914 Jean N. Svoronos 1915 George Francis Hill 1916 Théodore Reinach 1917 L.A. Lawrence 1918 Not awarded 1919 Adrien Blanchet 1920 H.B. Earle-Fox and J.S. Shirley-Fox 1921 Percy H. Webb 1922 Frederick A. Walters 1923 J.W. Kubitschek 1924 Henry Symonds 1925 Edward T. Newell 1926 R.W. Maclachlan 1927 Adolphe Dieudonné 1928 Sir Charles Oman 1929 Jules Maurice 1930 Edward A. Sydenham 1931 Helen Farquhar 1932 H. Nelson Wright 1933 Kurt Regling 1934 George Cyril Brooke (posthumously) 1935 Behrendt Pick 1936 John Allan 1937 Victor Tourneur 1938 J. Grafton Milne 1939 J.W.E. Pearce 1940 R. B. Whitehead 1941 Harold Mattingly 1942 E. Stanley G. Robinson 1943 Agnes Baldwin Brett 1944 Leonard Forrer 1945 Charles Seltman 1946 George Galster 1947 Eduard von Zambaur 1948 Jocelyn M.C. Toynbee 1949 Sydney P. Noe

1950 Karl Pink 1951 H.L. Rabino (posthumously) 1952 Lodovico Laffranchi 1953 Andreas Alföldi 1954 C. Humphrey V. Sutherland 1955 A.R. Bellinger 1956 John Walker 1957 George C. Miles 1958 Philip Grierson 1959 Oscar Ulrich-Bansa 1960 C. Wilson Peck 1961 Henri Seyrig 1962 Michael Grant 1963 Willy Schwabacher 1964 Anne S. Robertson 1965 Jean Lafaurie 1966 Derek F. Allen 1967 Margaret Thompson 1968 Paul Balog 1969 Christopher E. Blunt 1970 Pierre Bastien 1971 Herbert A. Cahn 1972 Robert A.G. Carson 1973 H. Enno van Gelder 1974 George Le Rider 1975 G. Kenneth Jenkins 1976 J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu 1977 P. Lal Gupta 1978 Colin M. Kraay 1979 Peter Berghaus 1980 Patrick Bruun 1981 Michael Dolley 1982 Otto Mørkholm 1983 Theodore V. Buttrey 1984 Michael H. Crawford 1985 Paul Naster 1986 Brita Malmer 1987 D. Michael Metcalf 1988 Peter R. Franke 1989 Leandre Villaronga 1990 John P.C. Kent 1991 Eric P. Newman 1992 Martin J. Price 1993 Andrew Burnett 1994 Cècile Morrisson 1995 Maria Alföldi 1996 Lord Stewartby 1997 Jørgen Steen Jensen 1998 Jean-Baptiste Giard 1999 Joseph E. Cribb

2000 Richard Doty 2001 Ulla Westermark 2002 Nicholas Mayhew 2003 Gert Hatz and Vera Hatz 2004 Michel Amandry 2005 Peter Spufford - The Mints of Medieval Europe[4] 2006 François Thierry - The Identification of the Nguyen Thong coins in the monetary law of the sixth year of Canh Hung (Vietnam 1745)[5] 2007 Wolfgang Hahn - Christian symbolism on Aksumite coins – the typological concept and composition[6] 2008 Mark Blackburn - Interpreting single-finds in a bullion economy: the case of dirhams in Viking-Age Scandinavia[7] 2009 Richard Reece - What are Coin Finds?[8] 2010 Alan Stahl - Learning from the Zecca: the Medieval Mint of Venice as a Model for Pre-modern Minting[9] 2011 Marion Archibald - Leaden Pennies[10] 2012 Lucia Travaini - Coins as Bread. Bread as Coins 2013 Michael Alram - From Bactria to Gandhara: Coins and Peoples across the Hindu Kush 2014 Roger Bland - What Happened to Gold Coinage in the 3rd Century AD? 2015 Bernd Kluge - Pound Sterling, English Coins and English Numismatics from a Continental Perspective 2016 Pere Pau Ripollès

References

1. Bylaw 68 of the Royal Numismatic Society|source=http://numismatics.org.uk/about-the-society/bylaws-of-the-society/
2. "Ian Rank-Broadley medal for the Royal Numismatic Society". Ian Rank-Broadley. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
3. "Medallists of the Royal Numismatic Society". The Royal Numismatic Society. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666443?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666966?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42678795?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42678641?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42678913?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42667257?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42678967?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents