Originally founded in 1836 as the Numismatic Society of London, the Society became the Royal Numismatic Society when it was granted its Charter in 1904.

The history of the Society was presented as a series of annual Presidential addresses by R.A.G. Carson - these were published in the Numismatic Chronicle between 1975 and 1978. The fifth and latest installment was written to mark the 150th anniversary of the Society in 1986. Each of these five parts can be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking on the links to the right of this page.

List of Presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society