Item 1969/1 - Letter from Philip Grierson to Hugh Pagan

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Photocopy of letter from Philip Grierson to Hugh Pagan, typescript, two pages on two folios, recto only, dated 4 December 1969, thanking HEP for his revised version of the Challis scheme. PG notes that he has made further changes and refers to an enclosure of a new version, which he hopes may "be taken as a final formula". He summarises the ways in which it differs from the Challis scheme and HEP's revised scheme, and he then makes several further points regarding the way weights are expressed; the possible suppression of the fineness column for coins of the Middle Ages, when fineness was stable; the retention of HEP's full-stops and commas in the references; the provision "sometimes made for the minting of specified fractions of bullion into particular denominations", which may not always have been observed; the necessity (or lack thereof) of including such minutiae as oz and dwt in the table for mint output; and the usefulness of including the dates of records that stipulate weight and fineness. The letter is not signed by PG but includes, in PG's hand, a short manuscript note in the upper left corner of the first page that reads "Ian, for information".