John Philip Cozens Kent, FSA, FBA (28 September 1928 – 22 October 2000) was a British numismatist and archaeologist.
He was born the son of a railway official in Hertfordshire and educated at Minchenden Grammar School and University College, London, where he was awarded a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1951.
After two years National Service he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals.
Other work covered the reclassification of imitative early medieval coins of the 5th century, assisting on the dating of the Sutton Hoo burial ship and the use of gold coinage in the late Roman Empire.
He also completed two volumes on the Continental Celtic Coins in the British Museum and other collections left incomplete by the death of previous keeper Derek Allen, which were published in 1987 and 1990.