Item 1970/2 - Letter from Philip Grierson with two attachments

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Letter from Philip Grierson with two attachments:
(a) letter, in typescript, single page, dated 2 November 1970, beginning with discussion of the earliest mint report of 1870, evidently in response to a query about the numbering of dies. He guesses one pair of dies per dozen "was numbered in this way". He mentions the enclosed quotation of Ansell.
(b) first attachment, in typescript, undated, labelled "Numbers of dies used" for pence, halfpence and farthings for the years 1868, 1869 and 1870, referencing G. F. Ansell, The Royal Mint, 3rd ed. (London 1871), pp. 76-80, which described die making.
(c) second attachment, in manuscript, undated but on scrap paper bearing the date 11 June 1962, giving figures for the "No. [of coins] struck per pair of dies" for the sovereign, half-sovereign, half-crown, florin, shilling, sixpence, threepence, pence, halfpence, farthing and maundy coin of 4d, 3d, 2d and 1d, referencing the 7th Annual Report of the Deputy Master of the Mint, 1876, p. 38.