Richard Kelleher

This project aims to promote the subject of numismatics within UK museums. This will be achieved through collections assessments at local museums and providing training to help local curators catalogue, store and display their numismatic objects.

The assessment process has two main outcomes; the first is to publish details of the affiliated museums' numismatic collections on the Money and Medals website; while the second will be the provision of training and resources based on the specific needs identified in the assessment process.

Previous projects

• Patterns of monetisation and coin use in England and Wales during the Middle Ages: New interpretations made possible by the Portable Antiquities Scheme
  AHRC-funded collaborative PhD (with Durham University)

Publications

• R. Kelleher, 'The re-use of coins in medieval England and Wales c.1050–1550: an introductory survey’, Yorkshire Numismatist 4 (2012), 183-200
• R. Kelleher,‘The Medieval and Post-medieval Coins’, with N. Cooke, in Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent: The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape, (eds.) Phil Andrews, Lorraine Mepham, Jörn Schuster, and Chris J Stevens (Salisbury, Oxford Wessex Archaeology 2011), pp
• R. Kelleher,Book Review. T. Abramson Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2, History 97:2 (326)
• R. Kelleher,Coins in Context: Archaeology, Treasure and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, with I. Leins, in The British Museum and the Future of UK Numismatics. Proceedings of a conference held to mark the 150th anniversary of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals. (ed.) B. Cook (London, British Museum Research Publication. 183, 2011), 18-24
• R. Kelleher, ‘Reused coins in the English later medieval period (c1200-1600)’, in The Archaeology of Medieval Europe Vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries, (ed.) M. Carver, & J. Klápste, (Aarhus University Press, 2011), 267-8
• R. Kelleher, ‘St Mary’s church, Barnes: archaeological investigations, 1978-83’ R. Cowie and S. McCracken with contributions by A. Ballantyne, I. M. Betts and R. Kelleher, Surrey Archaeological Collections 96 (2011)
• R. Kelleher, ‘The Tutbury Hoard of 1831’, with G. Williams, in Tutbury: ‘A Castle Firmly Built’ Archaeological and Historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, (eds.) M. Hislop, M., Kincey & G. Williams (British Archaeological Reports 546/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 11, 2011), 62-87
• R. Kelleher, ‘Interpreting single finds in medieval England – the secondary lives of coins’, in Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress volume II Glasgow 2009, (ed.) N. Holmes, (Glasgow, International Numismatic Council, 2011), 1492-1499
• R. Kelleher, ‘Coins and Tokens’, in Caldecote: The development and desertion of a Hertfordshire village, (ed.) G. Beresford (Society for Medieval Archaeology 2009), 211-212
• R. Kelleher, ‘Roman, Medieval and Later Coins from the Vintry, City of London’ with I. Leins, Numismatic Chronicle 168 (2008), 167-240
• R. Kelleher, ‘A lead impression of a French coin from Somerset’, Spink’s Numismatic Circular CXVI. 6 (2008), 297-298
• R. Kelleher, ‘Medieval and later coins from near Orford Castle, Suffolk’, British Numismatic Journal 78 (2008), 248-254
• R. Kelleher, ‘Gold is the strength, the sinnewes of the world: Continental gold and Tudor England’, British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), 210-225
• R. Kelleher, ‘1343 and all that: previously unnoticed documents relating to England’s new gold and silver coins’ with C. Eagleton, British Numismatic Journal 76 (2006), 340-344