Peter Alan Rayner (8 December 1924 – 29 July 2007) was a British author of numismatic (coin collecting) books.
He was known by his second name Alan, rather than his first, to avoid confusion with Peter Seaby, also a popular author, whose family firm Rayner joined at the age of 24.
During World War II he was conscripted into the mines as a Bevin Boy, although he was eventually released owing to ill health and enlisted in the Intelligence Corps.
The book was published by Seaby's Numismatic Publications and covered each denomination showing the engravers and designers of both the obverse and reverse of each coin.
In 1957 he helped prepare for print a second revised edition of the book called English Silver Coinage from 1649, written by Herbert Allen Seaby and first published in 1949.