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Barclay Vincent Head
1844–1914 · United Kingdom
British Museum numismatist who in 1871 read a paper on a hoard of gold staters found at Larnaca, later Keeper of Coins and Medals and author of Historia Numorum.
Biography
On 16 November 1871 Barclay V. Head read to the Numismatic Society a paper on a treasure of gold staters of Philip II, Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus found at Larnaca; the paper was communicated by R. H. Lang, then Consul in Cyprus4. No other Cypriot matter is recorded of him.
Head was born in Ipswich on 2 January 1844 and died in London on 12 June 19141. He entered the British Museum in 1864 and was Keeper of Coins and Medals from 1893 to 19062. His Historia Numorum, a manual of Greek coins, appeared in 1887 and in a new and enlarged edition in 19113. Writers in the Numismatic Chronicle cite it, with his British Museum reports, for the attribution of Greek coins7. The Lusignan coins described in that journal in 1891 as "Notes on Coins found in Cyprus" belonged to the article's own author, not to Head8.
Life and work
- 16 November 1871At the Numismatic Society, Head read a paper, communicated by R. H. Lang (H.B.M. Consul at Cyprus), on the treasure of gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus lately found at Larnaca
Connections
4 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Received from Robert Hamilton Langtreasure of gold staters found at Lamaca The Antiquary (1871)1871
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Robert Hamilton LangLarnaca hoard of Macedonian gold staters; treasure of gold staters found at Lamaca 1871, The Antiquary, n.p.; The Antiquarian (1871)1871
- Connected with Robert Hamilton LangPaper on the Larnaca hoard Vaux , W. S. W.; Evans, John; Head, Barclay V., The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society (1872)1871
- Worked with Mr. GrueberCyprus coin descriptions Head, Barclay V.; Grueber, A. Herbert; Evans, John, The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society (1891)1891
- Succeeded Reginald Stuart Poole1893, Revue archéologique, July-Dec 18931893
- Worked with J. G. C. AndersonBlaundus coin cast and British Museum Ptolemaic copper coin Numismatic Chronicle And Journal Of The Royal Numismatic Society (forth Series Vol.iv) (1904)
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- British Museum
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- People · 4listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Wikidata / GND (2026). Barclay Vincent Head. Online
- 2. (2026). “Barclay V. Head (Wikipedia)”. Online
- 3.B. V. Head (1911). “Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics (new and enlarged edition)”. Oxford.
- 4. (1871). “The Antiquary”.
- 5. (1893). “Revue archéologique, July-Dec 1893”.
- 6.J. Orr (1915). The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia.
- 7.G. F. Hill (1904). “Numismatic Chronicle, 4th series, vol. 4”. Numismatic Chronicle 4.
- 8.R. Warren (signature garbled in the text) (1891). “Notes on Coins found in Cyprus”. Numismatic Chronicle, 3rd series 11, 146-152.
- 9.1871, The Antiquary, n.p..
- 10.1893, Revue archéologique, July-Dec 1893.
- 11.Numismatic Chronicle And Journal Of The Royal Numismatic Society (forth Series Vol.iv) (1904).
- 12.The Antiquary (1871).
- 13.The Antiquarian (1871).
- 14.Head, Barclay V.; Grueber, A. Herbert; Evans, John, The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society (1891).
- 15.Vaux , W. S. W.; Evans, John; Head, Barclay V., The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society (1872).
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