Item 1979/1 - Letter from Ian Stewart to Peter Berghaus with attachment

2 items, paper

Letter from Ian Stewart to Peter Berghaus, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 17 January 1979, with attachment, acknowledging receipt of PB's Dortmund volume and declaring it "splendid". IS asks whether PB is aware who first used "Da Pacem Domine" on coinage, noting that it also appears on the 1553 testoon of Mary of Scotland and on a Basel coin of the mid-16th century. He notes that Mary also uses "Vicit Leo da Tribu Juda", which he presumes was copied from Pope Leo by way of Germany. He says that he does not know Mr Rampling but is interested in his paper. He returns PB's photographs, having taken two that he needs. He notes that he has been unable to follow-up on two of the references that PB gave him and asks for photocopies of the relevant pages so that he can reference them in his paper. The attachment is a typescript, 4pp, of a short note that IS has submitted to Coin Hoards on the "Naxos" find entitled "A hoard of English sterlings from the Aegean".