Suzanne Frey-Kupper

Suzanne Frey-Kupper (born 1958) is a classical archaeologist and numismatist from Switzerland, who is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She specialises in the study of Greek, Roman and Punic coinage, in particular examining their role in historical processes and as social agents.

Biography Frey-Kupper was born in Baden in 1958. She studied prehistory, archaeology and art history at the University of Zurich. In 1985 she founded the Swiss Working Group on Coin Finds (SAF/GSETM), which she was the first chair of, and which subsequently led to the creation of the Inventory of Swiss Coin Finds (IFS/ITMS of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences).

Awards

Global Contribution Award - University of Warwick (2016) Frey-Kupper, Suzanne, and Clive Stannard. "Evidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete bronze coins in the ancient world." (2018): 283-354. Frey-Kupper, S. (2014). Coins and their use in the Punic Mediterranean: Case studies from Carthage to Italy from the fourth to the first century bce. In J. Quinn & N. Vella (Eds.), The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule (British School at Rome Studies, pp. 76–110). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stannard, Clive, and Suzanne Frey-Kupper. ""Pseudomints" and Small Change in Italy and Sicily in the Late Republic." American Journal of Numismatics (2008): 351-404.