Item 1980/1 - Three cards and two letters from Philip Grierson

5 items, paper

Three cards, in manuscript, and two letters, in typescript:
(a) card, dated 12 April 1980, about the casts of an unusual coin with the legend DИHИVVDOVꙄNH ΛVC.
(b) letter, dated 17 November 1980 from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), thanking IS for his letter and birthday wishes and noting that he had not heard about the St Peter die; PG mentions the US elections but complains that the students lost interest in the returns once Carter had conceded; he is pleased at the progress of IS on Dark Age Coins and English Coins I, and he says that he will be interested in IS's comments on his drafts on some mints in the kingdom of Arles and on another draft on the florin; he concludes with discussion of the weather.
(c) letter, dated 6 June 1981, expressing his concerns about renovationes and why they begin; he wonders whether the Anglo-Saxon might have introduced the practice as a result of dies falling into the wrong hands, as happened in Sardinia in 1355.
(d) card, dated 11 June 1981, in which PG expresses his delight at IS's imminent election to the [British] Academy.
(e) card, dated 17 February 1982, thanking IS for letting him know of a Harthacnut [coin] that differs in type from the one in his collection and noting that his calendar is full until his departure for Dumbarton Oaks.