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- 1994 (Creation)
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4 items, paper
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Letter from Hugh Pagan, in typescript, single sheet, dated 20 December 1994, entitled "Monna's dies for Beornwulf", with five attachments. The letter evidently begins with HEP's response to a query from IS about a specific coin, which HEP believes is described in a manuscript listing of Robert Cotton's collection. The rest of the letter focuses on the abundant use of pellets on the reverse of Monne's coins and the possible conflation of Beornwulf's Monne with Aethelred II's Monne, which also implies the conflation of this Monne with that of Eanred and Aethelstan of East Anglia. The attachments consist in very slightly three different draft versions of the same short paper by Lord Stewartby, a page of notes and a page with renderings of coin legends:
(a) Lord Stewartby, "Differentiation of Monna's dies for King Beornwulf", two pages, [1st draft], with manuscript corrections.
(b) Lord Stewartby, "Differentiation of Monna's dies for King Beornwulf", two pages, [2nd draft], with corrections taken into account.
(c) Lord Stewartby, "Differentiation of Monna's dies for King Beornwulf", two pages, [3rd draft], with "(f)" in the penultimate line of the second paragraph on page one cut from the page.
(d) single page of manuscript notes in the hand of IS.
(e) two copies of a single page with renderings of coin inscriptions.