John Allan (numismatist) John Allan (numismatist) John Allan, (8 August 1884 – 29 August 1955) was a British numismatist and scholar of Sanskrit. Allan was a noted numismatist and produced the first systematic study of the coins the Gupta Empire, which remains a standard reference today. Allan was born in Bolton, East Lothian. His father, John Gray Allan, was the local schoolmaster. After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and Leipzig, Allan took up a position at the British Museum in 1907, eventually becoming the Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals in 1931. He was also a lecturer in Sanskrit at
Collect of the Communion service, such as "Common Worship" used in the Church of England or the 1979 "Book of Common Prayer" used in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the "Collect of the Day" follows the "Gloria" and precedes readings from the Bible. Similarly, Lutheran liturgies typically retain traditional collects for each Sunday of the liturgical year. In the newly released "Evangelical Lutheran Worship", however, the set of prayers has been expanded to incorporate different Sunday collects for each year of the lectionary cycle, so that the prayers more closely coordinate with the lectionary scripture readings for the day.