The Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles (SCBI) is an ongoing project to publish all major museum collections and certain important private collections of British coins. Catalogues in the series contain full details and illustrations of each and every specimen. Every Anglo-Saxon and Norman coin included in the project can be viewed on the SCBI Database, based at the Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

History

The project was first suggested in the early 1950s by Christopher Blunt and other members of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies. In 1956, its unofficial committee secured recognition as a committee of the British Academy through the good offices of its first chairman, Sir Frank Stenton. The first volume, on Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (prepared by Philip Grierson), was published two years later in 1958.[citation needed]

Since that date over sixty additional volumes have been published, covering both museum and some significant private collections in Britain,[1] the United States, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Latvia and more. Further volumes are in preparation or projected for the future. The key gaps in the series remain the British Museum and the Royal Coin Collection in Stockholm. Both of which present massive undertakings and have only recently begun to be tackled comprehensively.[2] Some of the early volumes, such as that covering the Cambridge collection, are also now in need of substantial updating.[3] Nonetheless, British numismatics has been extremely well served by the project, and it continues to publish volumes almost every year.[citation needed]

Committee

Since its inception, the policy of the Sylloge Project has been to keep an eminent Anglo-Saxon historian as its chairman. This reflects the emphasis on Anglo-Saxon material in the published volumes, and the need to keep an educated outside perspective on the project. Chairmen have included:

General Editors of the project have included:

Other current members of the Sylloge Committee are:

Volumes

Current volumes of the Sylloge are:

Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins. By P. Grierson. 32 plates, 1958.

Anglo-Saxon Coins. By A.S. Robertson. 42 plates, 1961.

By D.F. Allen. 8 plates, 1963.

Part I. Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins. By G. Galster. 30 plates, 1964.

Coins with the Chester Mint-Signature. By E.J.E. Pirie. 16 plates, 1964.

Anglo-Saxon Coins. By R.B.K. Stevenson. 29 plates, 1966.

Part II. Anglo-Saxon Coins: Æthelred II. By G. Galster. 71 plates, 1966. (Published jointly with the Carlsberg Foundation)

Hiberno-Norse Coins. By R.H.M. Dolley. 8 plates, 1966. (Published by the trustees of the British Museum)

Part I. Anglo-Saxon Pennies. By J.D.A. Thompson. 42 plates, 1967.

Part I. Anglo-Irish Coins, John - Edward III. By M. Dolley and W. Seaby. 20 plates, 1968. (Published jointly with the trustees of the Ulster Museum)

Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins; ROYAL COIN CABINET, STOCKHOLM. [Part VI.] Anglo-Norman Pennies. By C.E. Blunt and M. Dolley. 20 plates, 1969. (Published jointly with the Swedish Royal Academy)

Part II. English Coins 1066–1279. By D.M. Metcalf. 36 plates, 1969.

Part III. A, B, and C. Anglo-Saxon Coins: Cnut. By G. Galster. 158 plates, 1970. (3 vols.) (Published jointly with the Carlsberg Foundation)

Ancient British and English Coins to 1180. By C.E. Blunt, F. Elmore-Jones and R.P. Mack. 17 plates, 1971. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins. By A.J.H. Gunstone. 30 plates, 1971.

Part IV. Anglo-Saxon Coins from Harold I and Anglo-Norman Coins. By G. Galster. 54 plates, 1972. (Published jointly with the Carlsberg Foundation)

Ancient British Coins and Coins of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Mints. By L.V. Grinsell, C.E. Blunt and M. Dolley. 27 plates, 1972.

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins. By R.P. Mack. 56 plates, 1973.

Coins from Northumbrian mints, c.895-1279; Ancient British and Later Coins from Other Mints to 1279. By E.J.E. Pirie. 54 plates, 1975.

Part V. Hiberno-Norse and Anglo-Irish Coins. By G. Galster with M. Dolley and J. Steen Jensen. 22 plates, 1975.

Part III. Coins of Henry VII. By D.M. Metcalf. 53 plates, 1976.

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Coins. By A.J.H. Gunstone. 30 plates, 1977.

Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Coins. By T. Talvio. 41 plates, 1978.

Morley St Peter Hoard, and Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Angevin Coins, and Later Coins of the Norwich Mint. By T.H.McK. Clough. 52 plates, 1980.

Coins from Lincolnshire mints, and Ancient British and Later Coins to 1272. By A.J.H. Gunstone. 68 plates, 1981.

By V. Smart. 1981.

Ancient British and Later Coins to 1279. By M. Warhurst. 39 plates, 1982.

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins. By J.D. Brady. 30 plates, 1982.

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part I. Bedfordshire to Devon. By R.H. Thompson. 35 plates, 1984. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Part II. Hiberno-Norse Coins. By W. Seaby. 16 plates, 1984. (Published jointly with the trustees of the Ulster Museum)

Coins of Charles I. By J.J. North and P.J. Preston-Morley. 130 plates, 1984. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Anglo-Saxon Coins, Part V: Athelstan to Edgar's Reform. By M.M. Archibald and C.E. Blunt. 56 plates, 1986. (Published by the trustees of the British Museum)

Scottish Coins. By J.D. Bateson and N.J. Mayhew. 116 plates, 1987.

Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins. By B. Kluge. 41 plates, 1987. (Published jointly with the State Museum, Berlin)

Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval British Coins. By A. Mikolajczyk. 20 plates, 1987. (Published jointly with the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum in Lódz)

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part II. Dorset to Gloucestershire. By R.H. Thompson. 41 plates, 1988. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Edwardian English Silver Coins, 1279–1351. By J.J. North. 46 plates, 1989.

Part IV. Anglo-Saxon Coins: Harold I and Harthacnut. By T. Talvio. 74 plates, 1991.

By V. Smart. 1992.

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Later Coins to 1279. By A.J.H. Gunstone. 78 plates, 1992.

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part III. Hampshire to Lincolnshire. By R.H. Thompson and M.J. Dickinson. 51 plates, 1992. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part IV. Norfolk to Somerset. By R.H. Thompson and M.J. Dickinson. 50 plates, 1993. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins. By T. Berga. 12 plates, 1996.

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part V. Staffordshire to Westmorland. By R.H. Thompson and M.J. Dickinson. 51 plates, 1996. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

English Gold Coins and their Imitations. Part I. By P. Woodhead. 83 plates, 1996. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins to 1279. By J. Booth. 64 plates, 1997.

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part VI. Wiltshire to Yorkshire, Ireland to Wales. By R.H. Thompson and M.J. Dickinson. 43 plates, 1999. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016 By V. M. Potin. 54 plates. 1999.

Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and later British Coins. By I. Leimus and A. Molvõgin. 54 plates. 2001.

Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Coins By E. Lindberger. (Publ. jointly with the University of Uppsala.) 37 plates. 2006.

English Coins, 1066–1279. By J. D. Bateson. 38 plates. 2001.

Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins, Edward the Confessor and Harold II. Part VI: Supplement. Anglo-Norman Pennies. Part V by F. Colman; Part VI by M. Blackburn and K. Jonsson.

Part IV. English, Irish and Scottish Coins, 1066–1485. By M. Mucha. 23 plates. 2003.

English Short Cross Coins, 1180–1247. By J. P. Mass. 82 plates. 2001.

Part II. English Gold Coins, 1603 to the 20th Century. By P. Woodhead. 58 plates. 2002. (Published by Spink & Son Limited)

Scottish Coins. Part I. 1526–1603. By M. C. Q. Holmes. 99 plates. 2006.

Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750. Part VII. City of London. By R. H. Thompson and M. J. Dickinson. 61 plates. 2007.

Part II. Anglo-Saxon Coins 1016–1066. By V.M. Potin. 2011

Part III. Anglo-Gallic, Flemish and Brantine Gold Coins 1330–1794. By P. Woodhead 2011

Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750 Part VIII. Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. By R.H. Thompson and M.J. Dickinson 2011

Anglo-Saxon Coins Part I. Early Silver and Gold Coins By A. Gannon 2011

Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Coins to 1180. By H.E. Pagan 2012

Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016. By ELINA SCREEN 2013

Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins, 1016–1279. By ELINA SCREEN 2015

Anglo-Saxon Coins II. Southern English Coinage from Offa to Alfred c. 760–880. By R. NAISMITH 2016.

By S. LYON.

Coins of Early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea Area. By T. ABRAMSON

Scottish Coins and Dies 1603–1709. By J. D. BATESON and N. HOLMES

Notes

  1. ^ Although the original idea to catalogue the great Lockett collection, sold over five years between 1955 and 1960, was never developed.
  2. ^ SCBI 8 covering Anglo-Norse coins and SCBI 34 some 10th century coins were early attempts to tackle the British Museum collection. SCBI 63 has recently been published covering the earliest holdings of Anglo-Saxon coins in the[when?] and volumes are planned for Southern England between the reigns of Offa and Alfred and for Henry II. SCBI 11, 40 and 54 covered Stockholm's holdings from Harold I to the early Normans but the huge holdings of the coins of Aethelred II and Cnut, last systematically listed by Hildebrand in 1881, have yet to be tackled.
  3. ^ Although the pre-10th century material was updated in Medieval European Coinage Volume I - The Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th Centuries - by P Grierson and M Blackburn when it was published in 1986.

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