Joe Cribb
Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects in English. With David Jongeward he published a catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the American Numismatic Society New York in 2015. In 2021 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Numismatics at Hebei Normal University, China. Career. Joe Cribb studied Latin, Greek and Ancient History at Queen Mary College, University of London, graduating in  1970. He became a Research Assistant at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. He eventually rose to be the Keeper of the Coins and Medals (2003–2010), before his retirement in 2010. His work was focused at first on the Chinese coin collection, but later expanded to other aspects of Asian coinage. During his time at the Museum he curated a major exhibition "Money: from Cowrie Shells to Credit Cards" (1986), developed the Museum's first Money Gallery, and contributed to many other exhibitions and catalogues. Cribb has specialist knowledge of all Asian coinages. He started looking  at Chinese coins, and wrote the first English-language catalogue on Chinese silver ingots, and then focussed on the pre-Islamic coinages of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. He is particularly renowned for his research on the coins of the Kushan kings of ancient South and Central Asia (first to fourth centuries AD). In addition to his work at the British Museum, Cribb was President of the Royal Numismatic Society (2005–9) and was Secretary General of the Oriental Numismatic Society (2011–18). He was also a Trustee of the Ditchling Museum, where his grandfather Joseph Cribb was a  sculptor, and coordinator of the Eric Gill Society. Honours and awards. Cribb was presented with the Award of the Hirayama Silk Road Institute, Kamakura (1997), the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society (1999), and the Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society (2009). Two volumes of papers in his honour were presented to him upon his retirement from the British Museum. and volume 4 of Gandharan Studies, 2010, edited by Professor Nasim Khan. Publications. A selection of his publications are given below: