Barclay V. Head

Barclay Vincent Head (c. 1844–1914) was a British numismatist and keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.

Life

Head started work at the British Museum in 1864. He rose to be keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum (1893 to 1906). He published over many years eight of the thirty book catalogue of the museum's Greek coins. He also published a standard work on the subject which went to a second edition.

After his death, in his honour and in recognition of his work, his friends set up the Head Prize for Ancient Numismatics.

Honours and awards

1907 - awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society

1914 - elected Honorary Member of the Academia Romana, Bucharest

Bibliography

The following is a select bibliography.

Books/catalogues

British Museum Catalogue, Italy (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1873)

British Museum Catalogue, Sicily (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1876)

British Museum Catalogue, Thrace (with P. Gardner) (London, 1877)

British Museum Catalogue, Macedonia (London, 1879)

British Museum Catalogue, Central Greece (London, 1884)

Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics (Oxford, 1887)

British Museum Catalogue, Attica, Megaris, Aegina (London, 1888)

British Museum Catalogue, Corinth and her Colonies (London, 1889)

British Museum Catalogue, Ionia (London, 1892)

British Museum Catalogue, Caria (London, 1897)

British Museum Catalogue, Lydia (London, 1902)

British Museum Catalogue, Phrygia (London, 1906)

Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics. New and enlarged edition (assisted by G. F. Hill, George Macdonald, and W. Wroth) (Oxford, 1911)