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JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/LYON/1998/1
Title
Letter from Stewart Lyon plus unrelated attachment without cover
Date(s)
- 1998 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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Letter from Stewart Lyon and an attachment without cover:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 6 January 1998, sent by FAX, following up on the matter of the gouged dies and the "Quats and bars" paper of Robert Grayburn. SL thanks IS for a card of 14 December [1997], agrees with his identification of a gouged die on a coin of Oxford, and notes that Mr Grayburn has sent him two long letters expressing ideas "that cannot go unchallenged". He also looks forward to Deborah's upcoming party at the House of Lords.
(b) seven-page attachment without cover letter, in typescript, dated 3 November 1998, providing short descriptions of coins from the "Lyon collection on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum".