Item 1992/1 - Letter from Tomlinson Fort with attachments

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Letter from Tomlinson Fort with attachments:
(a) letter from TF, in typescript, single page, dated 5 March 1992, stating that the editor of the Classical Numismatic Review forwarded him a copy of the letter that IS had sent to the editor in response to TF's article. TF says that he is enclosing a copy of his own reply, which he sent to the Review. He also apologises if he has caused IS any pain.
(b) letter to the editor of the Classical Numismatic Review, unattributed but by Ian Stewart, entitled "PEOCHTHVN", in typescript, three pages, undated.
(c) letter to the editor of the Classical Numismatic Review , by E. Tomlinson Fort, entitled "PEOCHTHVN: A REPLY", in typescript, ten pages, dated 5 March 1992.
(d) letter from Ian Stewart to Tomlinson Fort, in typescript, two pages, dated 13 March 1992, thanking TF for his letter of 5 March, accepting his apologies but fearing that TF is misrepresenting the implications of what IS has written. He says that he did not imply that there was any weakening of Mercian authority in the years after Offa's death, that he did not distinguish between Weohthun as moneyer or as exercising the right of coinage, that a monetarius is simply someone involved in coin production, that there are too many coincidences between names on coins and as charter witnesses for them to be fortuitous, that Winchester was a leading royal centre of the West Saxon Kings even if not necessarily a capital city, and that striking coins partly for prestige does not necessarily preclude them being struck as currency. IS encloses an offprint of his article on "Ministri and Monetarii", Revue Numismatique, 6th series, vol. 30 (1988), pp. 166-175 (see attachment (g) below).
(e) Classical Numismatic Review, vol. 17, no. 1 (1st Quarter 1992), with TF's article on "The Coinage of Beorhtric, King of the West Saxons, 786-802".
(f) photocopy of the letters to the editor from Classical Numismatic Review, vol. 17, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 1992), pp. 3-5, with the letters of IS, "PEOCHTHVN", and TF, "PEOCHTHVN: A REPLY".
(g) Offprint, Ian Stewart, "Ministri and Monetarii", Revue Numismatique, 6th series, vol. 30 (1988), pp. 166-175.

For other material related to E. Tomlinson Fort, "The Coinage of Beorhtric, King of the West Saxons, 786-802", Classical Numismatic Review, vol. 17, no. 1 (1st Quarter 1992), pp. 4-5, 44, see JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/SMART/1992/2