Roger Bland

Roger Farrant Bland, CBE, FSA (born 3 April 1955) is a British curator and numismatist.

[1] In 1979, Bland joined the British Museum as a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals.

He was additionally Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe from 2012 to 2013, before serving as Keeper of the newly created Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory from 2013 until his retirement from the British Museum in 2015.

[2] Bland was 34th President of the Royal Numismatic Society, from 2018 to 2023.

He was a churchwarden and treasurer of St Margaret's, Cley from 2015 to 2020, and has been a lay reader in the Diocese of Norwich since 2018.

Bland identifying coins at his desk in 2003