# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-grierson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:33:01.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-grierson"
name: "Philip Grierson"
slug: "philip-grierson"
description: "Philip Grierson, was a British historian and numismatist. He was Professor of Numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long and extremely prolific academic career, he built the world's foremost representative collection of medieval coins, wrote very extensively on the subject, brought it to much wider attention in the historical community and filled important curatorial and teaching posts in Cambridge, Brussels and Washington DC."
tagline: "British academic and numismatist (1910–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-11-15"
deathDate: "2006-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.243243243243243
  historical:           7.207164000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فيليب جريرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Grierson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Grierson"
    title: "Philip Grierson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Grierson"
    title: "Philip Grierson"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Grierson"
    title: "Philip Grierson"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Grierson"
    title: "Philip Grierson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Grierson"
    title: "Philip Grierson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump