Elizabeth Jean Elphinstone Pirie FSA (14 September 1932 – 1 March 2005) was a British numismatist specialising in ninth-century Northumbrian coinage, and museum curator, latterly as Keeper of Archaeology at Leeds City Museum from 1960 to 1991.

Pirie was born in Malta on 14 September 1932, whilst her father was serving there as a Royal Naval Chaplain.

Here she was responsible for the display in 1956 of Dr Willoughby Gardner's collection of coins from the Chester mint (facility).

[2] During her time at Leeds she led several excavations, including the Cistercian ware kiln at Potterton, near in Barwick-in-Elmet with Philip Mayes.

[4] Pirie became the foremost expert on styca coinage and her volume Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria "provides an indispensable illustrated corpus of the known material".