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The growth of coin collections in the University of Oxford is only partially understood, with most scholars having focused on the original Bodleian cabinet, or on early collectors based in Corpus Christi and in Christ Church. This article addresses Philip Barton (d. 1765), a Canon of Christ Church, but who had been educated at New College. On his death he bequeathed his small but valuable collection of English coins to Christ Church, but it was New College that profited from his very extensive classical collection, numbering over 4,000 pieces, and accompanied by a library of around fifty valuable numismatic books. This article traces the rise of numismatic study in that college, the terms under which the Barton cabinet was received, and its fortunes to the present day. Contemporary interpretations of one of Barton’s most prized coins, a Jewish ‘shekel’, are also discussed and appraised. Catalogues of Barton’s bequests are supplied as online appendices.

Barton’s coins: eighteenth-century numismatics in New College, Oxford