Nicholas Lowick

Nicholas Manning Lowick (1940-1986) was a leading specialist in Islamic numismatics and epigraphy at the British Museum.
Biography.
Lowick was educated at Clifton College, and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he earned a First in French and German. He joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1962, working with John Walker. From 1964, he began a prolific series of articles on the medieval coinages of Central Asia, India, Iran, the Persian Gulf, the Yemen and the near East, and was part of the team working on Siraf. On the strength of his publications he was promoted to Deputy Keeper in 1979. He died on 11 November 1986, aged 45.
Lowick was a member of the Royal Numismatic Society (Library Secretary, 1964-1981, Reviews Editor of the "Numismatic Chronicle", 1975-1986, and a regular contributor to "Coin Hoards"). He was also a member of the British Institute of Persian Studies, and the Royal Asiatic Society.
Selected publications.
After Lowick's death, his colleague Joe Cribb collected his papers and published them in the Variorum series: