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Letter from Tim Knox, in typescript, dated 24 November 2016, with attachment; in the letter, TM advises Lord Stewartby that the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum were very pleased to receive from him one Anglo-Saxon silver sceat with bust of Christ on the obverse and bird to left on the reverse, which he purchased from Spink on 8 October 1986 and published with D. M. Metcalf in 'The bust of Christ on an early Anglo-Saxon coin', Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 167 (2007), pp. 179-182. The attachment consists in a carbon-copy "Museum Object Entry Form" recording the formal accession of the Anglo-Saxon sceat into the Museum's collection, dated 16 July 2016.
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For other material on the Anglo-Saxon sceatta with the bust Christ, see JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/SARRIS/2010/1