Symposium in Medieval Coinage, 13th July 2011

Coinage and Money in Britain 973-1520

Symposium in Medieval Coinage
at the Leeds International Medieval Congress,
SMC @ IMC Wednesday 13th July 2011

The 2011 Leeds International Medieval Congress takes place from July 11-14 and, with its theme of Poor . . . Rich, includes a medieval coinage symposium, SMC @ IMC, covering the medieval period from 973 to c.1500. This will be held on Wednesday 13th July and includes four full sessions with three 20-minute speaker in each and a lunchtine keynote session featuring Nick Mayhew, Senior Curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. These address broadly-based papers on numismatic topics and monetary history. The full programme is attached.

The event organiser is Tony Abramson who can be contacted at t.abramson@ntlworld.com, or 'phone 0113 225 0680.
Further information on IMC can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/.

This event forms the part of a week of wider activities under the banner:

"Yorkshire Festival of Numismatics".

Other events include:
Sunday 10th July: Hands-on metal detecting outing.
Wednesday 13th July: SMC @ IMC,  Leeds.
Thursday 14th July: Moneta Britannia, York.
Friday 15th July: York Coin Fair, day 1, featuring a special lecture by Gareth Williams of the British Museum on the fabulous Vale of York hoard, at 2:00pm.
Saturday 16th July: York Coin Fair, day 2. The Vale of York hoard is on view locally at the Yorkshire Museum.