Fleur Kemmers

Fleur Kemmers (born 1977) is the Lichtenberg Professor for Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Education

Kemmers undertook her undergraduate degree in archaeology in 1996 at the University of Amsterdam, and following her MA moved to Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000 to work on her PhD. Kemmers' doctoral work focused on Roman coins found at the legionary fortress of Nijmegen, examining the use and supply of coins in the Lower Rhine region in the first century AD. Kemmers completed her PhD in 2005 and the work was published as Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds from the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen in 2006. becoming a full professor in 2016.

Between 2016 and 2019 Kemmers directed a project Syria Antiqua: objects and their stories in numismatics to digitise the Graeco-Roman coins of Syria in the collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, examining circulation, provenance, and imagery.

In 2017 Kemmers presented research co-led with Dr Katrin Westner on the analysis of Roman silver coins proving a change in metal composition and the spread of silver from Spain following the defeat of Hannibal.

Kemmers has also appeared as a specialist on documentaries concerning Roman history and archaeology.

Awards and honours

2005: Van-Es Prize for outstanding dissertation in Dutch Archaeology (eds.) with Th. Maurer, B. Rabe Lege Artis. Festschrift für Hans-Markus von Kaenel. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 25 (Bonn, 2015). The Functions and Use of Roman Coinage: An Overview of 21st Century Scholarship (Brill, 2019)