Andrew R. Woods FSA is a British numismatist, archaeologist and curator specialising in early medieval and Viking coinage. ^[1] He is the senior curator of the Yorkshire Museum ^[2] and was formerly the curator of numismatics at the York Museums Trust. ^[3]

Woods received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Bristol in 2007. He also received a master's degree in medieval history from the University of St Andrews in 2008, and doctorate in archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2013. ^[4] His thesis was entitled Currency of the Ostmen: Money and Economy in Late Viking-Age Ireland ^[3] and was supervised by Mark Blackburn and James Barrett. ^[1] After completing his PhD, he worked as an assistant at the Fitzwilliam Museum. ^[5] He also worked for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. ^[3] He was appointed the curator of numismatics at the York Museums Trust in 2013 ^[3] and is currently the senior curator of the Yorkshire Museum. ^[2]

As a curator, Woods has helped acquire a number of treasure troves and hoards discovered in recent years, including the Wold Newton Hoard, ^{[6] [7]} the Overton Hoard, ^[8] and a rare Anglo-Saxon gold shilling. ^[9] He also arranged for the exhibition of the Vale of York Hoard. ^{[5] [10]}

Woods received the 2017 Blunt Prize from the British Numismatic Society. ^[11] He was elected a Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London on 6 June 2019. ^[12]

• 2013. 'The coinage and economy of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin' in S. Duffy, Medieval Dublin XIII. Four Courts Press, 43-69.
• 2014. 'Monetary activity in Viking-Age Ireland: the evidence of the single-finds' in Allen, Naismith and Screen (eds.), Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in honour of Mark Blackburn. Ashgate, 295-330.
• 2014. 'A case of modern imitation of a Hiberno-Scandinavian coin' in T. Abramson (ed.), Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 3, Spink, 159-61.
• 2016. 'Prelude to the Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle and Werburgh Street hoards' In H. Clarke and R. Johnson (eds.), Before and after the Battle of Clontarf: the Vikings in Ireland and beyond. Four Courts Press.
• 2017. with R. Naismith, 'Ireland to 1170' in R. Naismith, Medieval European Coinage 8, 323-36.
• 2019. 'Royalty and Renewal in Viking Age Ireland' in J. Kershaw and G. Williams (eds.), Silver and other economies in the Viking Age. British Museum Press.

• Lecture on the Wold Newton Hoard at the Yorkshire Numismatic Society
• Lecture on 'The Money of Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham'
• Curator's Talk on the Ryther Hoard