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John Kent (numismatist)

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Kenyon, John R (2014). "Excavations at South Mimms Castle, Hertfordshire 1960–91. By the late John Kent, Derek Renn and Anthony Streeten. 300mm. Pp v + 92, 63 b&w and col ills. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Special Paper 16, London, 2013. ISBN 9780903290661. £30 + £2.50 p&p
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Between 1960 and 1967, Kent directed excavations at South Mimms Castle in Middlesex. The results were published in 2013, after Kent's death; the book was based on drafts prepared by Kent and Anthony Streeten and updated by
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In 1974 he was promoted Deputy Keeper, and in 1983 Keeper, of the British Museum's coin and medal collection, a post he held until his retirement in 1990. A commemorative medal was struck to mark his retirement.
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in AD 491. He also completed two volumes on the Continental Celtic Coins in the British Museum and other collections left incomplete by the death of previous keeper
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burial ship and the use of gold coinage in the late Roman Empire. However his major published works were Volume VIII and X in the
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in AD 364. Volume X, published in 1994, covered the period from the division of the Roman Empire in AD 395 to the accession of
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series. Volume VIII, published in 1981, covered the period from the death of the Emperor
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He died in 2000. He had married Patricia Bunford in 1961 and had a son and a daughter.
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which was published in 1960. Other work covered the reclassification of imitative
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1974–1978 Elected President of the British Association of Numismatic Societies
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He was born the son of a railway official in Hertfordshire and educated at
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1986 Member of the Council of the International Numismatic Commission
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1984–1990 Elected President of the Royal Numismatic Society
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coins of the 5th century, assisting on the dating of the
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FSA
FBA
numismatist
Minchenden Grammar School
University College, London
National Service
British Museum
late Roman period
early medieval
Sutton Hoo
Constantine
Valentinian
Anastasius
Derek Allen
Derek Renn
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Fellow of the British Academy
Royal Numismatic Society
American Numismatic Society
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
"John Kent"
"JOHN KENT (28.9.1928 - 22.10.2000)"
doi
10.1017/S0003581514000109
S2CID
162320148
Categories
1928 births
2000 deaths
People from Hertfordshire

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