Joe Cribb

Joe Cribb during at the Berlin symposium on the Kushans in Dec. 2013

Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages. He has specialist knowledge of all Asian coinages, and in recent years has focussed on the pre-Islamic coinages of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. He joined the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, in the early 1970s, and was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals (2003–2010), before his retirement in 2010.[1] He was President of the Royal Numismatic Society (2005–9) and is Secretary General of the Oriental Numismatic Society (2011-). He is particularly renowned for his research on the coins of the Kushan kings of ancient South and Central Asia (first to fourth centuries AD). He was presented with the Award of the Hirayama Silk Road Institute, Kamakura 1997, the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1999,[2] and the Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society in 2009.[3] A volume of papers in his honour was presented to him upon his retirement from the British Museum.[4]

He is also a Trustee of the Ditchling Museum,[5] and coordinator of the Eric Gill Society.[6]

Publications[7]

References

  1. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A3=ind1010&L=MONEY-MUSEUMS&E=base64&P=1479&B=--part-AABgFynj88AAAAVm2v333UZNOu71uFVxtCLeJR09CVexF&T=APPLICATION%2FPDF;%20name=%22joe%20cribb%20galliard.pdf%22&N=joe%20cribb%20galliard.pdf
  2. http://www.onsnumis.org/news/joecribb.shtml
  3. http://numismatics.org/Archives/HuntingtonWinners
  4. Shailendra Bhandare and Sanjay Garg (eds): Felicitas: Essays in Numismatics, Epigraphy and History in Honour of Joe Cribb, Mumbai: Reesha Books International, 2011.
  5. http://www.ditchling-museum.com/collection_guild.html
  6. http://www.ericgill.org.uk/links/
  7. https://britishmuseum.academia.edu/JoeCribb
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