Item 1980/1 - Letter from Hugh Pagan with three attachments

4 items, paper

Letter from Hugh Pagan, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 4 December 1980, entitled "Louis the Pious solidi", with two attachments. The letter focuses mainly on the provenance of two specimens illustrated in Guillaume Conbrouse, Monuments de la maison de France: collection de médailles, estampes et portraits (Paris: Imprimerie de J. Claye, 1856), pl. IX.16-17. HEP further notes that material in the book casts doubt on Grierson's identification of a coin in the Bibliothèque Nationale as have coming from the St Martin hoard, Canterbury, and raises questions about a gold Carolingian coin [of Dorestadt?] in the BM. There is also a final note on the Bossall/Flaxton hoard, briefly describing "a further parcel of five coins". The three attachments consist in:
(a) [photocopy of] a paper entitled "A solidus of Yorkshire", from typescript, two pages of text plus further page with brief bibliography (clean copy), undated without indication of author, focusing on a gold solidus that was sold by Christie's on 17 November 1970, lot 46a, having been found at Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire.
(b) photocopy of a paper entitled "The imitative Louis the Pious solidus from Southampton and finds of other related coins in the British Isles, from typescript, five pages (three pages of text plus two pages of notes), undated but identifying author as "H. E. Pagan".
(c) one folio (recto & verso) of manuscript notes [in the hand of IS] on lined paper.