William E. Metcalf, FSA (born December 16, 1947) is an American numismatist, ancient historian, and former curator, who is an expert in the study of Roman coins.
[1][2] He became curator of coins and medals at the Yale University Art Gallery and professor of classics (adjunct) at Yale University in 2002; in 2007, his position was endowed as the Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, a post he held until his retirement in 2014.
Notable recognitions include his membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1988–1989, election to fellowship in the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1998, the Jeton de Vermeil of the Société française de Numismatique in 2008, and as the honorand of an annual lecture series in numismatics by the Archaeological Institute of America.
He received the 2024 Archer M. Huntington Award and Medal from the American Numismatic Society, and delivered the Silvia Mani Hurter Lecture on "The Making of Roman Provincial Coinage (X).
The Silver Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Vespasian to Commodus (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1996).