Tel. (direct) 01223 332949
Email ap345@cam.ac.uk
Fax 01223 332923
Adrian Popescu is keeper of Coins and Medals and is also responsible for book acquisitions. Within the Museum Dr Popescu is a member of Investors in People Working Party. He teaches numismatics to students of Classics and Archaeology at Cambridge University and the Institute of Archaeology, London. His research interests include ancient coinages from the areas surrounding the Black Sea, with particular focus on the mints from the western coast, coin production and circulation, and the analysis of coin finds. He is co-director of the Noviodunum Archaeological Project and a member of the teams publishing the coins found during excavations in the Greek and Roman cities of Histria and Tropaeum Traiani, Romania.
His wide-ranging publications include works on ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine and modern numismatics. He has also contributed to numerous archaeological reports from sites in many countries, including the UK.
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2012- |
Keeper of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
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2010 |
MA, University of Cambridge |
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2006-2012- |
Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum |
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2004 |
PhD, Bucharest University, Romania (Aspects of coin circulation in Dobrudja in the light of the finds from Noviodunum, 1st to 7th century) |
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2002-2006 |
Assistant Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
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2000-2002 |
Finds Liaison Officer, Portable Antiquities Scheme/Norfolk Museums Service, Norwich |
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1991-2000 |
Principal Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest, Romania |
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1987-1992 |
BA in Ancient History, Faculty of History, Bucharest University, Romania |
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2011- |
Chairman, Central Asian Numismatic Institute |
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2011- |
Affiliated Lecturer, Classics Faculty, University of Cambridge |
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2011- |
Member, Central Asian Numismatic Institute |
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2011- |
Member, Cambridgeshire Numismatic Society |
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2011- |
Deputy Chief Editor, Buletinul Societatii Numismatice Romane |
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2009- |
Member, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
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2009- |
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
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2007- |
Secretary of the British Academy's, Sylloge of Nummorum Graecorum Committee |
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2002- |
Member of the British Academy's Sylloge of Nummorum Graecorum Committee |
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2001-2009 |
Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
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2001-2003, 2009-2012 |
Council member, Royal Numismatic Society |
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1996- |
Fellow, Royal Numismatic Society |
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1995-2003 |
Council member, Romanian Numismatic Society |
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1995-2000 |
Member of the Editorial Board, Buletinul Societatii Numismatice Romane |
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1985- |
Member, Romanian Numismatic Society |