Item 1969/1 - Letter from Fred "Monty" Banks

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Letter from Fred "Monty" Banks, in manuscript (4pp), thanking IS for sending an offprint and asking if he has others to spare. The context of the letter suggests that the offprint was perhaps of Ian Stewart, "The St Martin coins of Lincoln", BNJ, vol. 36 (1967), pp. 46-54. The discussion focuses initially on the possible ecclesiastical origin of the St Peter and St Martin coinage, with reference to those "firmly convinced of a regal chronological sequence being followed prior to Eadgar's reform" and Peter Seaby's "remarks on the slender evidence for a place using a name form similar to that used for York – but which is now virtually lost to us". There follows some banter about the numismatic market and a note about intelligence from Marion Archibald that IS had given the BM an Eadgar in 1958. He mentions comparable example with the obverse legend INGELRI / ES MOT (or INGELGI / ES MOT), of which he had sent a photograph to MA.