Kevin Clancy is a numismatist and the Director of the Royal Mint Museum.^[1] Clancy is also Secretary to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals, Seals and Decorations^[2] 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.^[3]

Kevin Clancy became a member of the British Numismatic Society in 1993.^[3]

Recognition

• 2002: Council Prize of the British Numismatic Society^[3]

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. ISBN 978-1-869917067
• Britannia: icon on the coin. (2016) ISBN 978-1-869917029
• When Britain went Decimal: the coinage of 1971. (2021) ISBN 978-1-912667567