YNS Programme

YORKSHIRE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2025

 

All meetings take place at 7.00pm on the third Monday of the month via Zoom, unless otherwise stated.   

 

 Friday 17 January (12pm)

Informal meeting:

The York Coin and Stamp Fair,

The Grandstand, York Racecourse

Monday 17 February

Lindsay Hardcastle (President)

Decoding ‘Cunnetti’ and the regal coinage of Viking York

Monday 17 March

Bradley Hopper (Noonans)

Provenance, authenticity and new discoveries in numismatics

Monday 14 April

To be confirmed

Monday 19 May

Alex Bliss

Elagabalus: a life and reign through coins

Monday 16 June

James Simpson

(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

The provision of coin in a rapidly developing economy: England, 1500-1800

Friday 11 July (time tbc)

Summer Visit:

The University of Leeds Coin Collection with Assistant Curator Lucy Moore,

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Monday 15 September

Members’ Short Presentations

Monday 20 October

Cameron Maclean 

(University of Glasgow)

Highlights from the collection of English coins at The Hunterian

Monday 17 November

Annual General Meeting

to be followed by:

David Hoyle (Vice President)

The Provincial Mints of Charles I

 

If you would like to contact us or join the YNS for a meeting please e mail yorkshirenumismaticsociety@gmail.com

 

Coins of England and the United Kingdom 2025

Coins of England and the United Kingdom 2025

Pre-decimal Issues – Hardcover

Get this book (UK) at https://amzn.to/3CCP6fI

with Free Delivery

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of King Charles III, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. This Pre-Decimal volume lists all coinage up to decimalisation, with decimal coinage since 1968 is listed in a separate volume, available as an independent publication. The catalogue includes up-to-date values for every coin, a beginner’s guide to coin collecting, numismatic terms explained and historical information about each British coin, from our earliest (Celtic) coins, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins, the coins of the Plantagenet Kings, the Houses of Lancaster and York, the Tudors and Stuarts, to the more modern Milled coinage, minted for the first time in 1561 during the reign of Elizabeth I. From the earliest of times, coins have been used by states or monarchs to communicate with people; Coins of England is therefore not only a reference book for collectors, but a fascinating snapshot of British history, illuminating its economics, technology, art, politics and religion. Over 3,000 price changes have been made in this edition to reflect market activity during the past year, fully updated under the new ownership of Sovereign Rarities.

YORKSHIRE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2024

Please check back soon for our 2025 programme

 

YORKSHIRE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2024

 

All meetings take place at 7.00pm on the third Monday of the month via Zoom, unless otherwise stated.
  

19 January (Friday at 1pm):

Informal meeting at the York Coin and Stamp Fair,

The Grandstand, York Racecourse

19 February

Presidential address

Dr Richard Fynes

‘Some More Interesting Coins from York’

18 March

Dr Gary Oddie

‘The Circulation of Silver 1697-1817’

15 April

Bradley Hopper, Noonans

‘Life in a Numismatic Auction House’

20 May

Dr Gary Redfeather

‘The Wild West – Collecting US Morgan Dollar Varieties’

18 June (Tuesday at 7pm)

Dr Shailendra Bhandare, Curator of South Asian and Far-eastern Coins and Paper Money, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

‘Greek and Related Coinages in Gandhara’

19 July (Friday at 1pm):

Informal meeting at The York Coin and Stamp Fair,

The Grandstand, York Racecourse

16 September

Dr Adrian Marsden

CONCORDIA MILITVM and ADVENTVS AVG:

two new reverse types for the Gallic emperor Tetricus I

and an imperial visit that never happened

21 October

Members’ Short Presentations

18 November

Annual General Meeting

 

If you would like to contact us or join the YNS for a meeting please e mail yorkshirenumismaticsociety@gmail.com

 

Gold Coins of Anglo-Saxon England

Gold Coins of Anglo-Saxon England

In 1948, Humphrey Sutherland published Anglo-Saxon Gold Coinage, the earliest truly comprehensive catalogue of the subject matter, including detailed descriptions of the Anglo-Saxon coins in the Crondall hoard of 1828.

There has been no complete, fully illustrated catalogue since. Such is the glacial rate of numismatic progress on early gold.

However, in the digital era advancement is accelerating. With the increasing popularity of metal-detection in recent decades, more finds have surfaced. The Portable Antiquities scheme has facilitated recording in the public domain. Popular metal detection websites and magazines have enabled improved access to information. Auction catalogues have broadcast high resolution images and recent results have obliterated previous records.

In an attempt to make identification swifter and more reliable, and readily eliminate bogus coins, the author of the ground-breaking Sceatta List now compliments that work with a prequel – a complete and beautifully illustrated account of all recorded early English gold coinage covering nearly 100 different varieties.

This attractive and accessible 160-page hardback, so essential to all detectorists, field liaison officers, curators, scholars, dealers, auction cataloguers and collectors, is comprehensively illustrated with large full-colour images throughout and is outstanding value at just £30 delivered (UK) from the author at  t.abramson@ntlworld.com.

 

Some Scarce Shillings

We will be having a YNS Zoom Lecture Meeting on

Monday 21^st of March 2022 at 02.00PM (UK time)

 Subject: Some Scarce Shillings

By Gary Oddie

You can book a free ticket at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/some-scarce-shillings-tickets-289810830997?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Please note: Further information for joining online via Zoom will be provided to attendees prior to the event via e mail.

This talk will present items with the value of one shilling from several series around the world. Beginning with a discussion of what makes something rare, a die study of the testoons issued by Henry VII will be presented. The attached picture is the piece that started the study. This is followed by other pieces from the regal series that are a bit more obscure and then a tour of the less familiar numismatic byways of paper money, tokens, and counterfeits from Britain and around the world.

Carausius, Allectus and the First Brexit, featuring the Frome Hoard

Lecture

 

Carausius, Allectus and the First Brexit

Featuring the Frome Hoard

By Sam Moorhead

 

Monday 13th of September 2021

10:30AM

Via Zoom

Book a free ticket at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carausius-allectus-and-the-first-brexit-featuring-the-frome-hoard-tickets-151028366911?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

 

In recent years, the ‘British’ emperors Carausius (c. AD 286-93) and Allectus (c. AD 293-6) have gained much publicity. This began in 2010 with the discovery of The Frome Hoard of 52,503 Roman coins, the largest cache of Roman coins ever found in Britain in a single pot. The coins have been saved for the Museum of Somerset at Taunton and should be published by the British Museum in the next two years. Because the hoard contains around 850 coins of Carausius, it enables us to carry out a major re-appraisal of the reign of Britain’s ‘forgotten emperor’, whose history can be told through some fine examples of medallic art that even include references to Virgil. More recently, Carausius and his ‘henchman’ Allectus have come into sharper focus as a result of 'Brexit' and this talk will outline the nature of the 'Breakaway British Empire' under Carausius and Allectus, how it began, how it faired and how it ended.