Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Part X, Ionia

About Philip KinnsStanley IrelandVolker Heuchert

Dr Philip Kinns was educated at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge (1971-83) as undergraduate in Classics research student and Research Fellow (1979-83). His PhD (1980) was for a thesis entitled 'Studies in the Coinage of Ionia : Erythrae Teos Lebedus Colophon c.400-c.30 B.C.' He has published many articles on Greek Numismatics between 1983 and 2021 mostly focusing on Ionia and was an important contributor to A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names especially Volumes V.A (2010) and V.B (2013) having been involved in that major British Academy project for over thirty years. He is author of The Caprara Forgeries (Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 16 1984). Dr Stanley Ireland educated at the universities of Hull (BA in Classics 1968) and Cambridge (PhD in Greek Tragedy 1972). In numismatics his most significant publications (apart from vols. I and 2 of the Ashmolean Asia Minor coins) have been catalogues of ancient coins in the museums at Amasra and Amasya in Turkey the Grand Tour collection of ancient coins of Sir Roger Newdigate and the South Warwickshire hoard of Roman Denarii. In other areas he has published several editions of Greek and Roman comedies (by Menander and Terence) and a sourcebook on Roman Britain. Dr Volker Heuchert wrote his doctoral thesis on 'Roman Provincial Coins from the Province of Asia in the Antonine Period (AD 138-192)' at the University of Oxford. He then became an Institutional Research Fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Oxford-based 'Roman Provincial Coinage of the Antonine Period (RPC IV) Project'. Afterwards he worked as Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum where he is currently Deputy Keeper and Curator of Greek and Roman Provincial coins.