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Richard Reece

Richard Marsden Reece, FSA (born 1939) is a numismatist and retired academic.^[1]

Reece completed a degree in biochemistryatUniversity College London in 1961, before moving to Wadham College, Oxford, where he completed a diploma in education the following year. He taught at the private St John's SchoolinLeatherhead for three years before becoming Head of Chemistry at St George’s SchoolinHarpenden in 1966.^[2]

He left teaching in 1968 to undertake a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford,^[2] which he completed in 1972 with a thesis tiled "A survey of denominations and categories in the currency of the western Roman Empire, with special reference to hoards and site finds in Britain".^[3] He joined the London Institute of Archaeology as a lecturer in 1970. Promoted to a senior lecturer in 1981, he was made Reader in Late Roman Archaeology and Numismatics. He has been an emeritus reader at UCL since retiring in 1999.^[1][4]

Reece defined 21 date ranges for coins of the Roman period, now called Reece periods. The British Museum uses these (with two more added later) when comparing different discovery sites.^[5]

On 5 May 1969, Reece was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[6] He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) in 2003. The RNS presented him with Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society six years later.^[1] In 2014, he was awarded the British Academy's Derek Allen Prize for numismatics.^[7]

• Reece, Richard (1987). Coinage in Roman Britain (1st ed.). London: Seaby Publications. ISBN 9780900652868.
• Reece, Richard (2002). The Coinage of Roman Britain (2nd ed.). Cheltenham: The History Press. ISBN 978-0752425238.

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