Colin Mackennal Kraay, FBA, FSA (23 March 1918 – 27 January 1982) was an English numismatist.
Kraay was born on 23 March 1918, the son of Caspar Alexander Kraay, a rubber merchant of Dutch extraction, and Henrietta Agnes, a daughter of the sculptor Edgar Bertram Mackennal who had a deep interest in classical art and who designed the effigy of George V which appeared in British coins.
[4] In 1952, he was appointed a full assistant keeper at the Ashmolean, working in its Heberden Coin Room.
He served as the president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 1970 to 1974 and the Centre Internazionale di Studi Numismatici from 1974 to 1979.
[2] Kraay died on 27 January 1982, while still in his post at the Ashmolean and on the fellowship at Wolfson College.