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- 1979 (Creation)
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3 items, paper
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Copy of a letter from Elizabeth Pirie to Stewart Lyon, manuscript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 13 June 1979, with two attachments. In the letter, EJEP tells CSSL about the recent find at Coppergate, York, of a 10th-century trial strike of a coin in the name of [Anglo-Norse] King Eadwig. The strike is on a strip of metal that was folded when found. She does not think that the strip is lead but has not yet had metallurgical analysis. The York Archaeological Trust has asked her to write a note for publication but she says that she "cannot possibly do it without help". She asks CSSL whether he can spare her "a copy of anything recent on the grouping of coins of Eadwig". She remembers that CSSL once referred to OXO coins, to which she believes that the strikings to be related, and she would like to check the attribution of these pieces.
There are two attachments:
(a) Copy of News Release, typescript, two pages on two folios, dated 14 May 1979 (serial number 79007), entitled "Early Viking minting techniques discovered on Coppergate".
(b) Photocopies of photographic enlargements of the coin impressions on the metal strip from Coppergate.