Item 1982/1 - Four letters from Martin Allen with attachments

4 items, paper
6 items, photographic reproductions

Four letters from Martin Allen, two with attachments:
(a) letter, manuscript, single page, dated 10 January 1982, with photographs of coins from his own collection that may have relevance for Ian Stewart's study of the class VI and VII short-cross coinages. He describes one of the coins as a class VIa1 with obverse legend hENRICVR SRX (continuing the reading mentioned in BNJ, vol. 49, p. 31 note 18) and the other as a class VIc2/VId "mule" with ornamental letter Rs on the obverse (from same reverse die as BNJ, vol. 49, pl. IV.67-68). MRA also advises that he will be giving a short paper on the class V coins with "curls of hair in the portrait lacking enclosed pellets" at the February meeting of the BNS and asks to see photos of any of Ian Stewart's coins that may belong to this variety. He further advises that he is studying the class II-V coins of the Canterbury mint (incl. coins of the London mint of moneyers Arnaud, Goldwine and Iohan).
Two photographs, showing the obverse & reverse of the coins referred to in the letter, are attached.
(b) letter, manuscript, single page, dated 1 December 1982, referring to Ian Stewart's article on the class VIx short-cross coins in the BNJ, vol. 51, observing that IS missed an important piece of evidence for his study in the Ashmolean sylloge, part 2, no. 406, which "appears to be a second class VIc1/VIx 'mule' from obverse die O.23 ... paired with a new reverse die of the moneyer Iohan", thus providing the seventh reverse die as IS postulated in his article (p. 92). MRA refers to enclosures of photographs, no longer associated with the letter, of a "second specimen of the [class] VId/VIIa 'mule' from die combination O.81/R.86" and another coin from reverse die R.86 with a new [class] VIIa obverse. He advises that he will present a short paper on a preliminary die-study of the class Ia coins at the BNS meeting in March and would like to see photographs or casts of Ian Stewart's Ia and Ia coins.
(c) letter, manuscript, two pages on a single folio (recto & verso), dated 7 January 1983, thanking Ian Stewart for sending an offprint of his article in BNJ, vol. 51, and suggesting an addendum to clarify a few points, namely regarding the dating of the appointment of Salemun [?] at Canterbury. MRA also queries the accuracy of the statement that Walter, Roger and Iun "comprised a team of archiepiscopal moneyers ... up to the point in class VIIb where Ioan Chic replaced Eudo" as well as his identification of the moneyer Arnold. MRA reiterates his interest in Ian Stewart's class Ia and Ia coins.
(d) letter, manuscript, single page, dated 24 September 1984, thanking Ian Stewart for sending information on the Eccles hoard and enclosing photographs of two recently acquired coins that may be relevant to IS's work on coins of class VI-VII. He describes one as a class VIa2 and the other as a class VIc3/VId mule, "the first such mule recorded for the London mint", though he notes a comparable mule from the FEJ sale in 1983, lot 1222. The third coin is from an early tapered head obverse die and the "illustration from a dealer's list shows a blundered VIb1 obverse die (O.11) used with a reverse die of Abel".