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JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/BOON/1980/1
Title
Letter from George Boon
Date(s)
- 1980 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Scope and content
Letter from George Boon, in typescript, dated 8 July 1980, informing IS of a new hoard found on the outskirts of Cardiff a month earlier consisting of some 100 pennies of Empress Maud, including a new type, mostly from the Cardiff mint. There is also reference to a hoard of pennies of Canute from Llandudno and the work of Mr [David] Dykes on the hoard.