Item 1999/1 - Letter from Liz Pirie with six attachments

7 items, paper

Letter from Elizabeth Pirie, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 28 April 1999, explaining that, at the recent BANS Congress in York, Mike Bonser handed her a packet of papers about a relatively new find on which he and Bryan Snowball (dealer at Dalton-le-Dale, C. Durham) were seeking her opinion. She has composed a text in which she expresses her views on the coin but wonders whether she "really had gone too far" and therefore asks for comments. She also felt that IS might have been able to help in ensuring that the piece find a "good home" in a "responsible collection". In the event, the coin was sold to one C. J. Martin, with who she has never had any contact. She would like to know what IS thinks of the coin and seeks advice on how best to record its existence. The six attachments include:
(a) photocopy of draft text by EJEP, in typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 21 April 1999, describing the coin as "without recorded provenance" but noting that, according to information provided by M. J. Bonser, it was found in the Malton area [North Yorkshire] in late 1992.
(b) photocopy of [enlarged] images of the coin (with [Bryan] Snowball's manuscript annotations), single page, undated.
(c) photocopy of "Letter 1 from James Booth" [sic], in typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated from Hull on 7 February 1999, without indication of addressee or salutation and referring to EJEP in the third person.
(d) photocopy of "Letter 2: James Booth" [sic], in typescript, single page, dated from Hull on 9 March 1999.
(e) photocopy of note from Mark Blackburn, undated, bearing initials "S.M. / M.A.S.B.", in which the author(s) conclude(s) that the coin is most likely a contemporary counterfeit of about 810. The coin is described as follows: (?) obv. +RAEDILRED (first R reversed, for +AEDELRED R?), cross in a circle of pellets; (?) rev. +ELVALDREVD (outwards), large pellet in a circle of pellets. The coin is reported to be "base silver"; no weight is given.
(f) photocopy of an earlier letter from Elizabeth Pirie to [Chris Rudd], in manuscript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated from Edinburgh on 29 November 1998, originally attached to the above group.

For related correspondence of Elizabeth J. E. Pirie to Stewart Lyon, with attachments, see JCPP/Stewartby/1/3/Pirie/1979.