Michael Crawford (historian)

Michael Hewson Crawford FBA ( born December 7, 1939 in Twickenham ) is a British historian and numismatist. He is the editor of the standard works on the coinage of the Roman Republic, Roman Republican Coinage (RRC ).

Michael Crawford has been teaching at the St Paul 's School and at Oriel College, Oxford. He was a Fellow at Christ College in Cambridge in 1964. From 1969 to 1986 he was a lecturer in Ancient History. In the years 1986-2005 he taught at University College London, where he is professor emeritus since 2005. His scientific work deals with the Roman Republic, the coinage of the Roman Republic and the sources of ancient history.

Publications

• The Roman Republican Coinage. 2 vols, Cambridge 1974
• Numismatics. In: Michael Crawford (ed.): Sources for ancient history ( = The sources of history Studies in the uses of historical evidence. ), Cambridge 1983, pp. 185-233.
• The Roman republic. Collins, London 1978. Dt. Übers: The Roman Republic. dtv, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-04404-7.
• Coinage and money under the Roman republic. Italy and the mediterranean economy ( = The library of numismatics ), London 1985.