Item 1965/1 - The Leeds index of Early Medieval British coins

1 item, paper

"The Leeds index of Early Medieval British coins", typescript, two pages on one folio (recto & verso), undated and unattributed, but datable to 1965 on the basis of a paper presentation of Peter Sawyer at the British Association of Numismatic Societies National Numismatic congress at Leeds, Friday 25 June – Sunday 27 June [1965], as announced in Seaby's Coin & Medal Bulletin (SCMB) in March 1965, and a report on the presentation in the Guardian, Monday 28 June 1965. The outline paper describes a sample index for each coin and explains the need for both a system of bibliographic abbreviations and the establishment of a numerical sequence of serial numbers to facilitate identification. It suggests that the serial numbers be allocated in the following manner:
1-99,999: UK institutions other than the British Museum,
with 1-10,000 for the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, and 10,001-11,000 for the Leeds City Museum;
100,000-199,999: British Museum
200,000, 299,999: Private collections in the UK
with 200,000-200,250 for M. Banks
300,000-499,999: Collections in Scandinavia
500,000- : Unallocated
It also proposes using the index for indicating die-links and cross-referencing photographic negatives and their locations. The proposed index will be arrange by king or other issuing authority, then by type, then by mint, then alphabetically by moneyer, with a provision for mules. Finally, it proposes a system intended to track individual coins as ownership of them changes a system of codification to define the reign and type of coins, the mint and the moneyer.

For related materials, see Seaby's Coin & Medal Bulletin (SCMB), no. 561 (March 1965), p. 99, and the Guardian, Monday 28 June 1965.