Joe Cribb

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Cribb at the Berlin symposium on the Kushans in 2013

Joe Cribb (born 1948) [1] is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. [2] His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects in English. With David Jongeward he published a catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the American Numismatic Society New York in 2015. In 2021 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Numismatics at Hebei Normal University, China.

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Career

Joe Cribb studied Latin, Greek and Ancient History at Queen Mary College, University of London, graduating in 1970. He became a research assistant at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. He eventually rose to be the Keeper of the Coins and Medals (2003–2010), before his retirement in 2010. His work was focused at first on the Chinese coin collection, but later expanded to other aspects of Asian coinage. [2]

During his time at the museum he curated a major exhibition Money: from Cowrie Shells to Credit Cards (1986), [3] [4] developed the museum's first Money Gallery, and contributed to many other exhibitions and catalogues. [5]

Cribb has specialist knowledge of all Asian coinages. He started looking at Chinese coins, and wrote the first English-language catalogue on Chinese silver ingots, and then focused on the pre-Islamic coinages of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. He is particularly renowned for his research on the coins of the Kushan kings of ancient South and Central Asia (first to fourth centuries AD).

In addition to his work at the British Museum, Cribb was President of the Royal Numismatic Society (2005–9) and was Secretary General of the Oriental Numismatic Society (2011–18).

He was also a Trustee of the Ditchling Museum, where his grandfather Joseph Cribb was a sculptor, [6] and coordinator of the Eric Gill Society. [7]

Honours and awards

Two volumes of papers in his honour were presented to him upon his retirement from the British Museum, and a Festschrift to mark his 75th birthday:

Publications

A selection of his publications are given below: [11]

References

  1. https://britishmuseum.iro.bl.uk/concern/books/12d17228-344b-4b50-a6e6-6929a9a20292 [ bare URL ]
  2. 1 2 Joe Cribb, Numismatic Who's Who, Coins Weekly, retrieved 29 October
  3. Joe Cribb, From Cowrie Shells to Credit Cards (London, 1986) ISBN   978-0714108629
  4. Joanna Bowring, Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum [BM RP 189] (London, 2012) p. 63. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/RP_Exhibitions_Chronology.pdf
  5. "Joe Cribb medal" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  6. "The Rich Collection". Ditchling Museum. Archived from the original on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
  7. "None". Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  8. Oriental Numismatic Society. "Joe Cribb's medal award". Onsnumis.Org. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  9. "Recipients of the Huntington Medal Award". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  10. "Derek Allen Prize". The British Academy. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  11. "Joe Cribb | Hebei Normal University - Academia.edu".