Steering Committee

Martin Allen

Martin Allen is a former Senior Curator of Medieval Money at the Fitzwilliam Museum and he administers the Fitzwilliam's online Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC). He is the President of the Royal Numismatic Society and Editor of the British Numismatic Society. His main area of research is the monetary history of medieval Britain.

Matthew Ball

Matthew Ball is the National Finds Advisor for Iron Age and Roman coins with the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), tasked with overseeing recording on the PAS database, as well as identifying and researching Iron Age and Roman coins reported to PAS Finds Liaison Officers across England and Wales. Prior to the British Museum, Matthew has worked in numismatic roles at various museums in the North West of England and at the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Matthew is currently completing his doctorate at Oxford on the Roman silver coinage of the second century AD, alongside which he is finishing off the identification and analysis of the several thousand Roman coins excavated at the Roman fort, vicus, and cemetery at Binchester, County Durham. He is Vice President of the Royal Numismatic Society.

Alison Boyd

Alison Boyd is the editor of Coin Collector magazine and has extensive publishing experience, ranging from academic texts to consumer magazines. Being editor of Coin Collector enables her to share her interest in numismatics, which stems from her BA in archaeology and MPhil in history of art and architecture, with a wider audience.

Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown is Curator of Roman Coins at the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), where he is also responsible for teaching Roman numismatics. His research interests focus on applied numismatics and coin circulation, particularly in Roman Britain, coinage in archaeology, and accessibility to numismatic data. In his previous role as National Finds Advisor at the British Museum, Andrew worked extensively on single coin finds and hoarded assemblages within England and Wales and is currently contributing toward the analysis of the Frome Hoard (UK) and Roman coinage from the forum at Butrint (Albania).

He is the Honorary Secretary of the Royal Numismatic Society.

Jesper Ericsson

Jesper is Curator of Numismatics at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. He has worked for over two decades in the museum sector for institutions such as National Museums Scotland and The Gordon Highlanders Museum. Jesper has been in his current role since 2019. His main interests include military medals, Jacobite-related material and using numismatics to explore themes of discomfort, colonialism and empire.

Suzanne Frey-Kupper

Suzanne Frey-Kupper is a professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, teaching Numismatics, Classical Archaeology, and topics related to Ancient History and Ancient Visual and Material Culture. Her research is on coin finds from the Western Mediterranean and the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. She has published widely on coins from excavations in Rome, Sicily, Carthage, Aventicum and many other sites to reconstruct monetary history and assess coins in their historical, economical and wider cultural context.

She chaired the foundation of the Swiss Working Group for the Study of Coin Finds, leading in 1991 to the creation of the Swiss Inventory of Coin Finds (SICF) hosted at the Swiss Academy for Human and Social Sciences, the equivalent of the Portable Antiquities Scheme in the UK. With her team, she has created and edited the SICF’s volumes IFS on coin finds and the Bulletin IFS, based on the SICF database. She also worked at Museums and Archaeological Services as their coin expert, and is the curator of Warwick's Classics Department's Antiquities and Coin collection. From 2007 she lectured at the University of Zurich, before joining the University of Warwick in 2011. She is the Money and Medals Network’s line manager and chairs its steering committee.

Megan Gooch

Dr Megan Gooch did her PhD on the Viking coins of York at Durham University and has worked as a coin curator at the British Museum and Historic Royal Palaces. She has served on the Royal and British Numismatic Society Councils and is currently the Medieval and Post-Medieval coin expert on the DCMS Treasure Valuation Committee.

Lynsey Jones

Lynsey has worked in the museums and galleries sector for over 25 years, currently at a strategic level supporting mainly smaller and medium-sized independent and local authority museums through her role as Museum Development Adviser at Museum Development North. She also has extensive experience as a curator and collections manager in local authority and independent museums. She has been working with the Money & Medals Network since 2013 and a member of the MMN steering group since 2019.

Clare Rowan (Committee Chair)

Clare Rowan is a professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Her research currently focuses on tokens in the Roman world, and she also teaches ancient numismatics at undergraduate and graduate level. She is also committed to spreading a love of numismatics, working with schools and other organisations to create resources for teaching ancient coinage.

Elina Screen

Elina Screen is Curator: Medieval and Modern Collections in the Department of Money and Medals at the British Museum, President of the British Numismatic Society, and General Editor of the Medieval European Coinage project. She has published the Norwegian collections of Anglo-Saxon and British coins for the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles series. Her numismatic interests include the use of coins and money in the Viking age.