Kevin Clancy

Kevin Clancy is a numismatist and the Director of the Royal Mint Museum. Clancy is also Secretary to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals, Seals and Decorations which advises the British Government and Crown on the designs of coins and similar objects.

Biography Kevin Clancy graduated from the University of Leeds (First Class Honors) with a degree in history and completed a PhD on The Recoinage and Exchange of 1816-17.

Kevin Clancy became a member of the British Numismatic Society in 1993.

Recognition

2002: Council Prize of the British Numismatic Society

Publications

Author The recoinage and exchange of 1816-17. PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. A history of the sovereign: chief coin of the world. (2015). ISBN 978-1-869917005 An illustrated history of the Royal Mint. (2016). ISBN 978-1-869917012 Objects of war: currency in a time of conflict. (2018) ISBN 978-1-907427909

Editor Designing change: The art of coin design. Llantrisant: Royal Mint, 2008. Britannia: icon on the coin. (2016) ISBN 978-1-869917029 When Britain went Decimal: the coinage of 1971. (2021) ISBN 978-1-912667567