Richard Abdy

Richard Anthony Abdy is a British numismatist at the British Museum, specialising in Roman coins.

Biography

Abdy graduated in 1992 from the University of Glasgow with a degree in History. His area of expertise is Britain in Roman times and its border fortifications, known as the Limes Britannicus. He worked on coin hoards on the Antonine Wall with Keith Rutter of the Hunter Coin Collection at the University of Glasgow.
He joined the staff of the British Museum in 1993, as an assistant in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. In 1998 he became one of the two curators of Iron Age and Roman Empire coins in the Department of Coins and Medals. His responsibilities included processing coin hoards acquired or offered for sale by the Treasure Act 1996

2002 Lhotka Memorial Prize for Romano-British Coin Hoards
2010 Gilljam-Prize for his article “The Domitian coin from Chalgrove: a Gallic emperor returns to history“ about the second Antoninian coin of Domitianus II.
2013 Lhotka Memorial Prize for ''Coins and the Bible''

2002 - Romano-British Coin Hoards, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough. ISBN 0-7478-0532-6.
2002 - Coin Hoards from Roman Britain 11 Royal Numismatic Society, London. ISBN 0-901405-68-X.
2008 - Roman Army. Pocket Dictionary. British Museum Press, London. ISBN 0-7141-3126-1.
2009 - Coin Hoards from Roman Britain 12. Moneta, Wetteren. ISBN 978-90-77297-64-3.
2010 - The Gloucester hoard and other coin hoards of the Britannic Empire. Moneta, Wetteren 2010, ISBN 978-90-77297-81-0.
2013 - Coins and the Bible. Spink & Son, London. ISBN 978-1-907427-74-9
2019 - The Beau Street, Bath Hoard. Archaeopress, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78491-594-0.
2019 - From AD 117–138: Hadrian. Spink & Son, London. ISBN 978-1-912667-18-5.
2024 - Legion. Life in the Roman army. The British Museum Press, London. ISBN 978-0-7141-2293-9.

2004 - "The second-known specimen of a coin of Domitian II recorded in a hoard from Oxfordshire", Revue Numismatique 160, pp. 219–221.
2005 - "Two important new Roman coins", Numismatic Chronicle 165, pp. 175-178. doi:10.2307/42667281
2006 - "A Catalogue of Hoards and Single-Finds from the British Isles c. AD 410–67", in Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams, Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500–1250. Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald, pp. 11-73. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 90-04-14777-2.
2009 - "The Domitian coin from Chalgrove: a Gallic emperor returns to history", Antiquity, vol. 83, no. 321, pp. 751-757. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00098963.
2012 - "Coin hoards from the British Isles 2012", British Numismatic Journal, vol. 82, pp. 230-244.
2014 - "Chronology of Sabina’s coinage at the Roman mint", Revue Numismatique 171, pp. 73–91.