Lhotka Prize

The Lhotka Memorial Prize is a prize awarded to the author of a publication about numismatics which is considered most helpful to the elementary student of numismatics published in the previous two calendar years. ^[1]

The prize was endowed in 1962 by Professor John Francis Lhotka Jr (University of Oklahoma) (1921–1993), ^[2] an honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, in memory of his father, Dr John Francis Lhotka.

Past winners

• 1963 Robert A.G. Carson (Coins, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, London, 1962)
• 1964 David R. Sear (Roman Coins and their Values, London, 1974)
• 1965 R.H. Michael Dolley (Anglo-Saxon Pennies, London, 1964) and J. Porteous (Coins, London, 1964)
• 1966 Howard W.A. Linecar (Beginner’s Guide to Coin Collecting, London, 1966)
• 1967 Philip D. Whitting (Coins in the Classroom, London, 1966)
• 1969 Anthony Dowle and Patrick Finn (The Guide Book to the Coinage of Ireland, London, 1969)
• 1970 M.J. Freeman (The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, London, 1970)
• 1971 P.L. Gupta (Coins India: the Land and Peoples, New Delhi, 1969)
• 1972 J.R.S. Whiting (Commemorative Medals, Newton Abbot, 1972)
• 1973 G. Kenneth Jenkins (Ancient Greek Coins, New York, 1972)
• 1974 George Berry (English Medieval Jetons, London, 1974)
• 1975 Richard Plant (Arabic Coins and How to Read Them, London, 1973)
• 1976 W. Burger (Ching Cash until 1735, Taipei, 1976)
• 1978 John P.C. Kent (2000 Years of British Coins, London, 1978); A.M. Burnett (Coins of Roman Britain, London, 1977); I.A. Carradice (Ancient Greek Portrait Coins, London, 1978); and M.P. Jones (Medals of the French Revolution, London, 1977)
• 1979 Michael Mitchiner (Oriental Coins and their Values : the Ancient and Classical World, Sanderstead, 1977)
• 1980 John Casey (Coinage in Roman Britain, 1980)
• 1981 Martin J. Price (ed., Coins : an Illustrated Survey 650 BC to the Present Day, London, 1980)
• 1982 C. Bruce (The Standard Guide to South Asian Coins and Paper Money since 1556 AD, Iola, Wisc., 1981)
• 1983 J.O’D. Mays (The Splendid Shilling : a Social History of an Engaging Coin, Ringwood, 1982)
• 1984 E. Junge (World Coin Encyclopedia, London, 1984)
• 1985 Michael Broome (Handbook of Islamic Coins, London, 1985)
• 1986 Joe Cribb (ed. Money : from Cowrie shells to Credit Cards, London, 1986)
• 1987 Andrew M. Burnett (Coinage in the Roman World, London, 1987) and D. Nash (Coinage in the Celtic World, London, 1987)
• 1988 Martin J. Price and Ian A. Carradice (Coinage in the Greek World, London, 1988)
• 1989 John Casey and Richard Reece (eds, Coins and the Archaeologist, 2nd edn, London, 1988)
• 1990 Joe Cribb, Barry Cook and Ian A. Carradice (The Coin Atlas : the World of Coinage from its Origins to the Present Day, London, 1990)
• 1991 Edward M. Besly (Coins and Medals of the English Civil War, London, 1990) and A.M. Burnett (Interpreting the Past : Coins, London, 1991)
• 1992 Philip Attwood (Artistic Circles : the Medal in Britain 1880–1918, London, 1992) and the contributors to One Money for Europe
• 1993 Elizabeth Errington and Joe Cribb (The Crossroads of Asia, Cambridge, 1992)
• 1994 Jeffrey North (English Hammered Coinage I : Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c.600–1272, 3rd edn, London, 1994)
• 1995 Virginia Hewitt (Beauty and the Banknote, London, 1994) and Christopher R. Wren (Illustrated Guides to Identification : series of three books on English Hammered Coins, 1992, 1993, 1995)
• 1996 Christopher Howgego (Ancient History from Coins, London, 1995)
• 1997 Edward Besly (Loose Change, Cardiff, 1997) and John Orna-Ornstein (The Story of Money, London, 1997)
• 1998 Richard G. Doty (America’s Money, America’s Story, Iola, Wisconsin, 1998)
• 1999 Nicholas Holmes (Scottish Coins : a History of Small Change in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998) and Nicholas Mayhew (Sterling : the History of a Currency, London, 1999)
• 2000 David R. Sear (Roman Coins and their Values, Vol. 1, The Republic and The Twelve Caesars, 280 BC – AD 96, London, 2000)
• 2001 Ivan Buck (Medieval English Groats, Witham, 2000)
• 2002 Richard Abdy (Romano-British Coin Hoards, Princes Risborough, 2002)
• 2003 Philip Attwood (British Art Medals 1982–2002, London 2002)
• 2004 E. Colgan (For Want of Good Money: The Story of Ireland’s Coinage, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2003)
• 2005 David Hartill (Cast Chinese Coins, Crewe, 2005)
• 2006 Paul and Bente Withers (The Galata Guide to the Pennies of Edward I and II, Llanfyllin, 2006)
• 2007 Eurydice Georganteli and Barrie Cook (Encounters. Travel and Money in the Byzantine World, D. Giles Ltd London)
• 2011 Bente and Paul Withers (The Token Book, Llanfyllin, 2010)
• 2013 David Hartill (Early Japanese Coins, Sandy, Beds, 2011)
• 2013 Amelia Dowler and Richard Abdy (Coins and the Bible, 2013); Sam Moorhead (A history of Roman coinage in riltain: illustrated by finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, 2013)
• 2014 Elizabeth Cottam and Chris Rudd (Britain’s First Coins, 2013); Michael Cuddleford (Coin Finds in Britain: A Collector’s Guide, 2013)
• 2015 Richard Kelleher (A History of Medieval Coinage in England, 2015)
• 2016 Eleanor Ghey (Hoards: Hidden Histories, 2015)
• 2018 Dario Calomino, (Defacing The Past – Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome, 2016), and Peter Thonemann, The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World, 2016)
• 2019 Clare Rowan (From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC-AD 14): Using Coins as Sources, Cambridge, 2018)
• 2023 Lia Yarrow (The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources) (Cambridge, 2021)
• 2024 Helen Wang, François Thierry (numismatist) and Lyce Jankowski (Chinese Numismatics: the World of Chinese Money, London, 2022)

References

1. "The Lhotka Memorial Prize". 23 May 2014.
2. Biography of J F Lhotka https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins Accessed 8 Dec 2024