Martin Jessop Price (27 March 1939 – 28 April 1995) was a British numismatist who was made a Merit Deputy Keeper of the British Museum in 1978, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, 1986-87. In 1992 he was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society. ^[1] He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first in classics. In 1961, he won a Greek government scholarship which introduced him to the British School of Athens. ^[2] In 1966, he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, under Kenneth Jenkins, and was eventually appointed Deputy Keeper in 1978, a position he held until September 1994 when he became Director at the British School of Athens until his death. ^{[3] [4]}

Personal life

Martin Jessop Price had a lifelong connection with Greece and was fluent in modern Greek. He would eventually meet his wife Maria in 1965 and have two sons and a daughter. He was described as an inspiration to his colleagues, and would often throw himself into projects that had little reward but were necessary. ^[2]

Notable Work

• Coins of the Macedonians ^[5]
• The Seven Wonders of The Ancient World ^[6]
• Coinage in the Greek World ^[7]
• Coins and their cities: Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palestine ^[8]
• The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum catalogue ^[9]

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