British numismatist (1953–2011)
Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn , FSA , FRHistS (5 January 1953 – 1 September 2011) was a British numismatist and economic historian . He was educated at the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and St Edmund Hall , Oxford. He was Keeper of Coins and Medals at Fitzwilliam Museum from 1991 to 2011, Reader in Numismatics and Monetary History at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2011, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 2005. He was the President of the British Numismatic Society between 2004 and 2008.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
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