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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUMISMATIC SOCIETIES 2017 CONGRESS Not from the Mint... Facsimiles, Fakes and Forgeries THE CROWN HOTEL, HARROGATE 7th – 9th April 2017 WELCOME Eyup! Greetings! Tyke NumSoc is rightly chuffed t’welcome The Yorkshire Numismatic Society is thee t’coiners’ wapentake, but dassent blether delighted to welcome you to this Congress to BANS 2017 Harrogate – ‘tis grim in t’blathered dwinelands and us on Facsimiles, Fakes and Forgeries. Enjoy fugglin’ folks twang spade ‘shovel’. Hugger the open-hearted generosity and rich humour up, ‘tis addled to gang beyond t’thrang of northerners. Socialize and enjoy the an’ toity hafe of t’Crown baht minnin-on - enchantments of Harrogate, especially its On behalf of the officers of the British away, but Yorkshire pud, pomfret cakes and rhubarb pie. famous cafés and restaurants. Association of Numismatic Societies, every year Nesh claht ‘eads bah t’daggly keks, croodled The fashion conscious can take advantage welcome to the 2017 BANS Congress, the since (with the britches, gawky gallases, awfish brats an’ of the local haute couture, whether formal latest in a succession of events that has its exception of fettled coits ah wahned agin cliose loans or casual, and for the more adventurous, roots in the national Coin Day first held in 1986 when the a’gradely Dales, wuthering Pennines, mardy the picturesque landscapes of the Dales, May 1947, almost 70 years ago. UK hosted the York Moors, fretted Wolds, clarty vales, Pennines, Moors and Wolds are close to hand The first national numismatic congress was International middlin ginnels and mullocky snickets a’York. with historic York only a short journey away. that held in Bradford in May 1951 organised, Numismatic Straif an’ swaimish best up thasen! Members and visitors, enjoy your stay! then as now, by the Yorkshire Numismatic Congress) the Society. Its indefatigable president, Horace BANS Congress each Spring has allowed Tony Abramson Hird, coincidentally the city’s mayor collectors and students of numismatics Yorkshire Numismatic Society President that year, hosted a civic reception and to forget the turmoil of everyday life and inadvertently set the introductory tone for come together to enjoy coins in the spirit the majority of congresses staged ever since. of friendliness that has characterised past BANS itself was not founded until April events. 1953, when Hird, Edgar Winstanley and David Harkness became its senior officers. Peter Preston-Morley That Coronation year is like another world BANS President The Yorkshire Numismatic Society and BANS would like to thanks all the advertisers in this brochure for their support. We would also like to thank the following organisations for their continuing sponsorship and support. The Royal Numismatic Society The British Numismatic Society The UK Numismatic Trust The Royal Mint The coin on the cover is a Viking imitation from the Vale of York hoard currently on display in the Yorkshire Museum. Image is © York Museums Trust (Yorkshire Museum). 2 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUMISMATIC SOCIETIES 2017 CONGRESS THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUMISMATIC SOCIETIES 2017 CONGRESS 3 CONGRESS PROGRAMME Friday 7th April 15.00 - 17.00 Registration 17.30 Assemble for dinner – Henry’s Bar www.dnw.co.uk 17.45 Formal welcome by BANS President Peter Preston-Morley 18.00 Dinner – Bronte Suite Britain’s Leading Specialist Auctioneers and Valuers 19.30 The Royal Mint Lecture - Chris Barker Coins, Tokens and Medals of all kinds, The New £1 Coin Orders, Decorations, Paper Money and Numismatic Books 20.30 Informal drinks sponsored by The Crown Hotel – Henry’s Bar Saturday 8th April 08.50 Announcements – Thackwray Suite 09.00 Boring, Barbarous and Base: Recent Research on Irregular Radiates - Adrian Marsden 09.45 The Linecar Memorial Lecture - Vincent Drost Elizabeth I, Milled coinage, Pattern Struck copies of tetrarchic nummi (AD 294-307) - overview of an unsung practice Threepence, 1575, by Derek Antony, 10.30 Break – Bronte Suite sold for £14,400 in March 2016 11.00 The CNG Lecture - Tony Abramson Imitation and imitative ‘sceats’ 11.45 Filling the Void : The Danelaw imitations of the London monogram coinage of Alfred the Great - William MacKay 12.30 Buffet lunch – Bronte Suite 13.30 BANS AGM - Council only 14.00 Excursion to Ripon or free time – please read guidance on page 16 18.30 Assemble for dinner – Henry’s Bar 19.00 Conference Dinner with wine sponsored by Mark Rasmussen – Bronte Suite 21.00 Grand Raffle and Auction Sunday 9th April 08.50 Announcements – Thackwray Suite 09.00 The UK Numismatic Trust Lecture - Phil Mernick Mostly made in Europe, medieval jettons used in Britain An average of 18 specialist auctions each year. 09.45 A numismatic history of the Civil War in Yorkshire - Tristan Griffin To consign material or for further information, please contact 10.30 Break – Bronte Suite Christopher Webb, Peter Preston-Morley or Jim Brown 11.00 York’s 17th Century tokens and their issuers - Melinda Mays 16 Bolton Street Mayfair 11.45 Baldwin’s of St James’s Lecture - Chris Comber DIX London W1J 8BQ England The Irish Harp Coinages of Henry 8th – the definitive and final version Telephone 020 7016 1700 12.30 Summary and close by YNS President Tony Abramson NOONAN Fax 020 7016 1799 12.45 Buffet lunch – Bronte Suite WEBB Email [email protected] 4 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUMISMATIC SOCIETIES 2017 CONGRESS THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUMISMATIC SOCIETIES 2017 CONGRESS 5 CHRIS BARKER SPEAKERS The new £1 coin Abstract - March 2017 will see the the introduction and development of launch of the new £1 coin and offers the existing round £1 coin in 1983, TONY ABRAMSON an opportunity to look back on its drawing out the similarities but also the development. The talk will examine differences between the two coins. Imitation and Imitative ‘Sceats’ the background behind the introduction of the new coin, how its distinctive 12 Biography - Chris Barker graduated worked at the Royal Mint Museum for sided, bi-metallic appearance came from the University of York in 2008 just over 5 years, regularly giving talks Abstract - As the early penny or sceat are the increase in fiat currency and the about, the problems of producing the with a BA in History before going to local societies and groups on the became more familiar to the Anglo- occurrence of iconographic ‘borrowing’ new coin and how the design was on to complete an MA in Cultural British coinage and the history of the Saxons in the late seventh century from the primary issues. The former chosen. It will contrast this against Heritage Management in 2011. He has Royal Mint. (primary phase), confidence in the is manifest in the decreasing intrinsic currency grew as an essential attribute value of the early penny, continuing the of the process of post-Roman re- evolution from the mid-seventh-century authorities, and the second, assuming monetization. Two characteristics of gold shilling. The latter carries through we know which issues were ‘official’ in this process in the secondary phase of two stages. The first is the emission such turbulent times, in the occurrence CHRIS COMBER early pennies in the early eighth century, of similar, imitative, issues by other of imitation unofficial issues. The The Irish Harp Coinages of Henry 8th – speaker explores the feasibility of making these fine distinctions in such a the definitive and final version varied coinage. Biography - Tony Abramson has Abstract - Chris’s talk at the Congress Biography - Chris bought his first studied early Anglo-Saxon coinage will deal with the chronology of the hammered coin in August 1957 since the early 1990s. He has written a coinages of Henry VIII as well as the and for the last 59 years he has number of books on the topic, the most reason for their often over hurried specialised in every aspect of the purchased his first Henry VIII Irish recent of which reclassified the silver production. He will also discuss some coinages of Elizabeth I. In 1958 he harp groat. He describes himself as proto-pennies or ‘sceats’ issued from the known forgeries. The illustrated talk will ‘discovered’ Seaby’s and Bert Seaby an amateur numismatist as he is still 670s to the 750s south of the Humber be further enhanced by the delegates’ immediately nurtured his collecting employed as a consultant marine and well in to the ninth-century in the opportunity to handle actual specimens. interests. At about that time he claims adjuster. kingdom of Northumbria. There are more than 650 varieties of these tiny coins, rich in the iconography of the Conversion Period. Tony initiated the VINCENT DROST biennial international symposia in early medieval coinage and is editor of the Struck copies of tetrarchic nummi resultant publications. Tony qualified as a chartered accountant after graduating (AD 294-307): overview of an unsung practice in economics from the University of Lancaster in 1970. He spent the last 25 years of his career launching technology Abstract - The new bronze copies (prototypes, style, metrology, start-up companies but has recently denomination introduced by Diocletian etc.) will be discussed. Circulation retired to take a PhD in numismatics in c. AD 294, known as the nummus, and possible production areas will be at the Department of Archaeology, is a large and attractive silvered coin. investigated through provenances and University of York. Counterfeiters took advantage of it to die studies. Known find spots are mainly research associate at the Coin Cabinet produce both cast and struck copies. Western. According to both hoards - of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Whereas a couple of casting mints were such as the one recently found in Wold (2003-2012) and as a Project Curator at identified in Britain and in Normandy, Newton - and PAS single finds, Britain the British Museum (2014-2016).