Parkes Weber Prize Explained
The Parkes Weber Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Royal Numismatic Society for original research relating to numismatics by a young scholar under the age of thirty.[1]
About the prize
The prize is named after the British numismatist Frederick Parkes Weber. It was instituted in 1954 and is under the administration of the Council of the Royal Numismatic Society. It is awarded for an original essay of not more than 5,000 words on any subject relating to coins, medals, medallions, tokens or paper money.
Prize winners
Many of the prizewinners have gone on to have distinguished academic or heritage careers:[2]
- 1954 D.W. Dykes - 'Some local tokens and their issuers in early nineteenth century Swansea'[3]
- Highly commended: I. H. Stewart - 'Aspects of coinage and currency in medieval Scotland'
- 1955 D.M. Metcalf
- 1956 I. Stewart[4]
- 1959 D. Nugus and D.E. Hanson
- 1965 P. O’Shea
- 1966 C.M. Hake
- 1967 S. Leggett
- 1968 I.C. Thomson
- 1969 M.R. Curry
- 1970 H. Emary
- 1971 M.A. Guilding
- 1972 M.A.S. Blackburn and S. Cope
- 1974 G.C. Kumpikevicius
- 1975 M. Flower and A.G. Wager
- 1976 K. Costello
- 1977 R. Macpherson
- 1978 M.B. Pearson
- 1979 R.B. Sampson
- 1982 M.J. Druck
- 1983 N. Summerton - Ancient British Coins[5]
- 1991 M. Rockman
- 1992 Henry S. Kim
- 1993 E. Theran
- 1994 John Orna-Ornstein
- 1997 S. Armstrong, T.C. Crafter and P. Kiernan
- 2000 E.L. Cheung
- 2002 P. Kiernan
- 2003 S. Skaltsa
- 2004 N. Elkins
- 2005 Rory Naismith
- 2006 Di Hu
- 2008 Rebecca Day [Darley<nowiki>]
- 2011 Lauren Proctor
- 2012 Tom Waldwyn
- 2013 Matthew Naiman and Victoria Collins
- 2014 Murray Andrews and Supratik Baralay
- 2015 Michael Economou
- 2018a George Green - ‘The relationship between the Romans and their gold coinage A.D. 64−A.D. 200’
- 2018b Charlotte Mann - 'The circulation of Festival coins struck for the Eleusinian Mysteries'
- 2021 Bridget McClean
Notes and References
- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/Academic/naismithr/naismithr.aspxThe Parkes Weber Prize | The Royal Numismatic Society". Numismatics.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- Web site: The Parkes Weber Prize. 2014-05-23.
- Bellinger. Alfred R.. 1955. Proceedings of the Royal Numismatic Society. Numismatic Chronicle. 15. 45. xiii-275. 42662901.
- 1957. Proceedings of the Royal Numismatic Society. Numismatic Chronicle. 17. 1–14. 42663088.
- 1984. President's Address. Numismatic Chronicle. 144. i–xii. 42667404.
