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- 1976-1978 (Creation)
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3 items, paper
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"Hand types of Aethelred II in the context of Edgar's reform", by Stewart Lyon, consisting in the following three parts:
(a) "Hand types of Aethelred II in the context of Edgar's reform", by Stewart Lyon, main text, in typescript, forty-two pages on as many folios (recto only), with note on the upper left corner of the first page that reads "BNS March 1976", but otherwise undated. The account of the Proceeding of the British Numismatic Society for 1976 includes the note: "At an Ordinary Meeting held at the Warburg Institute on Tuesday, 27 April [1976], ... Mr. Lyon read a paper entitled 'The Hand Types of Æthelred II'.
(b) Accompanying figures / illustrations, in manuscript (photocopy):
Fig. 1. Distribution of some important pre-reform hoards.
Fig. 2. Minting regions used for analysis of late Anglo-Saxon coin types.
Fig. 3. Geographical distribution of late Anglo-Saxon coin types.
Fig. 4. Relative northerliness [sic] of surviving coins and known moneyers.
Fig. 5. Weight distribution of 'hand' types, by groups of minting districts.
Fig. 6. Survival rates of moneyers from one type into succeeding type.
Fig. 7. Representation of major mints in some hand & crux hoards.
(c) "Proposition", in manuscript (photocopy), eight pages on eight folios (recto only), signed "CSSL" and dated 15 June 1978, containing the proposition "That if a national period-type were due to be introduced c. 985 and to run for six years, circumstances must have conspired to frustrate this intention". It lists a series of thirteen questions focusing mainly on the second hand type and thirteen corresponding answers.