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B. Lowsley
A retired Royal Engineers officer turned his sharp eye to coins, dialect, and local tradition. Best known in book history as B. Lowsley, he wrote careful, curiosity-driven studies that still appeal to readers of regional history and numismatics.
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The Coinages of the Channel Islands
by B. Lowsley
About the author
Barzillai Lowsley, who published as B. Lowsley, was a British army officer and writer remembered for combining military experience with deep antiquarian interests. Available sources identify him as Lieutenant-Colonel Barzillai Lowsley (1840–1905), a Royal Engineers officer who served in Barbados from 1862 to 1872 and in Ceylon from 1872 to 1882 before retiring.
His writing ranged widely but kept a clear focus on close observation and historical detail. He contributed work on the coins and tokens of Ceylon, wrote on seventeenth-century Berkshire tokens, and published A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, showing the same care for everyday language that he brought to old coinage.
The Coinages of the Channel Islands fits neatly into that pattern. It is a compact, research-minded study of how currency developed in the islands, written by someone with a collector's patience and a historian's love of small but telling details. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so none is included here.