British Numismatic Society

The R.C. Lockett Collection:  Richard Cyril Lockett (1873-1950) was the Chairman of William & John Lockett Ltd., shipowners in Liverpool.

He commenced collecting c.1906, focussing on the English series, purchasing heavily in the Rashleigh (1909), Carlyon-Britton (1913-18), Walters (1913), Roth (1917-18), Bruun (1925), Huth (1927), Morrieson (1933), Lord Grantley (1943-45) and other collections.

From the 1920s his numismatic collecting interests expanded to Greek coins and then continental, Roman and Byzantine coins, building one of the largest and most important numismatic collections in the United Kingdom.

His collection of English Milled (Cromwell to Victoria) was sold at Sotheby’s (28 April 1927) and, after his death, his vast collection was sold by Glendining’s in 14 sales over a seven-year period (1955-1961) to avoid flooding the market.

The British Numismatic Society holds Lockett’s own 58 volume manuscript catalogue of his collection. These volumes provide a unique insight into Lockett as a discerning numismatic connoisseur, while documenting provenances of his purchases and his hand-written observations about the coins in his collection.

Each volume covers a specific period or category of his collection. Within each volume there is an individual paper tag inserted for each coin.

During 2022 the BNS will create digital surrogates of Lockett’s manuscript catalogue, with the goal of protecting this fragile item for posterity and making this resource freely available online for study by anyone with an interest in numismatics worldwide.

PLEASE NOTE: The material is BNS copyright, and may not be reproduced without BNS permission, but individuals may download copies of the PDF files for their own personal use.    

• Ancient British 

• Roman – Part 1

• Roman pt.2

• Merovingian, Sceats, Stycas, Kent, East Anglia, Viking 

• Mercia 

• Wessex

• Eadred – Edward the Martyr

• Edward the Elder – Edmund

• Aethelred II – Harthacnut

• Edward the Confessor – Harold II

• William I

• William II – Henry I

• Stephen

• Tealby Short Cross – Long Cross

• Edward I – Richard II

• Henry IV – Henry V

• Henry VI – Edward IV

• Edward IV – Richard III

• Henry VII – Henry VIII

• Edward VI – Elizabeth

• James I

• Charles I Tower – Charles II

• Charles I Provincial Mints (I)

• Charles I Provincial Mints (II)

• Charles I Tower

• English Misc. Anglo-Saxon Charles I

• Scottish David I – Anne

• Scottish Robert II – James V

• Scottish Mary – James VI

• Scottish Charles I – Anne

• Irish (I) John – James I

• Irish (2)

• Anglo-Gallic

• European Incl. Carolingian France Italy

• European Germany Austria

• European Incl. Netherlands Portugal Spain

• Scandinavian

• Byzantine and Derivatives Gaulish

• Greek I AR Massalia – Lucania

• Greek 2 AR Metapontum – Terina

• Greek 3 AR Sicily

• Greek 4 AR Macedonia – Thrace

• Greek 5 AR Russia – Euboea

• Greek 6 AR Athens – Achaea

• Greek 7 AR Elis - Lesbos

• Greek 8 AR Ionia – Cappadocia

• Greek 9 AR Seleucid – Bactria

• Greek 10 AR Africa

• Greek II AE Massalia – Italy

• Greek 12 AE Sicily

• Greek 13 AE Macedonia

• Greek 14 AE Thrace

• Greek 15 AE Thessaly – Crete

• Greek 16 AE Aegean – Bithynia

• Greek 17 AE Mysia - Lesbos

• Greek 18 AE Phrygia – Cyrene

• Greek 19 AE Africa

• Greek 20 AE Clazomenae - Hierapolis