Item 2001/1 - Inventory of Conte Collection of Norman & Angevin Coins, by [Mark Blackburn]

1 item, paper

"Inventory of Conte Collection of Norman & Angevin Coins", typescript (photocopy), sixty pages on thirty folios (recto & verso), dated January 2001, unsigned but attributable to Mark Blackburn on the grounds that he was Keeper of Coins & Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which acquired the coins under his direction. The inventory lists 506 Norman coins, 84 short-cross coins and 225 long-cross coins for purchase, by reign, with BMC number, mint, moneyer, pedigree/provenance, condition and valuation, plus a further three extremely rare and valuable pieces, with descriptions, that Dr William Conte had undertaken to donate [to the Fitzwilliam Museum]. Accompanying material includes four A4-sized photographic plates showing photographic enlargements of four coins each:
(a) William I, type II, Shrewsbury (mule with old obverse of Edward the Confessor's pyramid type); William I, type V, Marlborough; William I, type VIII, Cardiff (locally made dies); William II, type II, Launceston;
(b) Henry I, type VI, London; Henry I, round half-penny, Sandwich (mule with type IX penny reverse); Henry I, type IX, Totnes; Henry I, type VIII, Chichester;
(c) Stephen, flag type, York; Stephen, lozenge-sceptre type, York; Stephen, type III, Northampton; Stephen, Awbridge type, Buckingham;
(d) Eustace FitzJohn, lion type, York; Eustace FitzJohn, knight with sword type, York; William of Gloucester, facing bust type, Cirencester; Patrick Earl of Salisbury, helmeted bust with sword [type], Salisbury;
(e) Henry de Neubourg, cross moline type, Swansea; John of St John, cross moline type, Caerphilly; Henry of Northumberland, cross & crosslets type, Bamburgh; John, short-cross coinage, class Va3 with three-quarter bust, Winchester.

See also potentially relevant correspondence of Mark Blackburn to Ian Stewart in JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/BLACKBURN/1980-2006.