David Wigg-Wolf

Supervised by Cathy E. King, Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Wigg-Wolf received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1986 with his thesis on "The Circulation of Bronze Coinage in N. Gaul in the Mid-fourth Century A.D.: the Numismatic Evidence for the Usurpation of Magnentius and its Aftermath"[1] From 1982 to 1984, he went to the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship,[2] an exchange program of the German Academic Exchange Service and the University of Oxford.

[3][4] From 1984, he worked as a researcher on the project "Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland" (FMRD), financed by the German Research Foundation, which was then transformed in 1986 into the academy project "Fundmünzen der Antike" (FRMD/SFMA) at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

[6] Since December 2024, Wigg-Wolf has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Wigg-Wolf is also specialized in digital numismatics, having played a decisive role in shaping computer-aided research in this field.

[8] Since 2011 he has been working closely with the Linked Open Data project of the American Numismatic Society (ANS), nomisma.org,[9] which was initiated by Andrew Meadows and Sebastian Heath and is now being further developed by Ethan Gruber, and is now a member of the nomisma.org Scientific Committee.

Obverse of a bronze medal with the artistically designed portrait of David Wigg-Wolf in high relief. The sculpturally emphasized portrait is surrounded by a circular inscription with the name 'DAVID WIGG-WOLF' and the year '2024'.
Obverse of the medal for David Wigg-Wolf, designed and cast by Rossen Andreev. Specimen from the Münzkabinett Berlin, object number 18314264 [ 5 ] .
The reverse of a bronze medal with an enlarged depiction of Celtic coins, which are laid on top of and next to each other in a detailed and vivid manner, creating a layered relief.
The reverse of the medal depicts Celtic coins in enlarged form, arranged one above the other and next to each other in great detail and plasticity.