The Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles (SCBI) is an ongoing project to publish all major museum collections and certain important private collections of British coins.
Every Anglo-Saxon and Norman coin included in the project can be viewed on the SCBI Database, based at the Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The project was first suggested in the early 1950s by Christopher Blunt and other members of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies.
The first volume, on Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (prepared by Philip Grierson), was published two years later in 1958.
[citation needed] Since that date over sixty additional volumes have been published, covering both museum and some significant private collections in Britain,[1] the United States, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Latvia and more.
The key gaps in the series remain the British Museum and the Royal Coin Collection in Stockholm.
Both of which present massive undertakings and have only recently begun to be tackled comprehensively.
[2] Some of the early volumes, such as that covering the Cambridge collection, are also now in need of substantial updating.
[3] Nonetheless, British numismatics has been extremely well served by the project, and it continues to publish volumes almost every year.
[citation needed] Since its inception, the policy of the Sylloge Project has been to keep an eminent Anglo-Saxon historian as its chairman.
This reflects the emphasis on Anglo-Saxon material in the published volumes, and the need to keep an educated outside perspective on the project.
Chairmen have included: General Editors of the project have included: Other current members of the Sylloge Committee are: Current volumes of the Sylloge are: Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins.
(Published by the trustees of the British Museum) Part I. Anglo-Saxon Pennies.
(Published jointly with the trustees of the Ulster Museum) Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins;
(Published jointly with the Swedish Royal Academy) Part II.
(Published jointly with the Carlsberg Foundation) Ancient British and English Coins to 1180.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins.
(Published jointly with the trustees of the Ulster Museum) Coins of Charles I.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Anglo-Saxon Coins, Part V: Athelstan to Edgar's Reform.
(Published jointly with the State Museum, Berlin) Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval British Coins.
(Published jointly with the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum in Lódz) Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Edwardian English Silver Coins, 1279–1351.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Tokens of the British Isles 1575–1750.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) English Gold Coins and their Imitations.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins to 1279.
(Published by Spink & Son Limited) Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016 By V. M. Potin.
Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins, Edward the Confessor and Harold II.
Early Silver and Gold Coins By A. Gannon 2011 Part II.
Coins of Early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea Area.