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Martin Allen, FSA, is a British numismatist and historian, specialising in medieval English coinage. Allen is the Senior Assistant Keeper of Numismatics at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Ute Wartenberg is a prominent numismatist, the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society, a research numismatic research institution founded in 1858. She obtained her PhD in Papyrology and Classical Literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there. After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role before being elected as the ANS President.
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