Item 1980/1 - Two letters and one card from Glenn Gittoes with one attachment

4 items, paper

Two letters and one card from Glenn Gittoes with one one attachment:
(a) letter, manuscript, single page, dated 12 October 1980, stating that he read Ian Stewart's article on the class VI and early class VII coinage with great interest and wishing to bring three coins to his attention: (1) one with VIb lettering but with cross saltire; (2) class VIc with 2-2 curls and ornamental letters both obverse and reverse (Lockett plates, 1st of short-cross pennies, 8th row & 5th col.); (3) class VIc coin of Bury St Edmunds with 2-2 curls on the obverse and double-barred Ns on the reverse, noting that this form of ornamentation was not included in the drawing of ornamental letters in the Lawrence paper but occurs on at least one coin in the BM (e.g. North, vol. 1, pl. XVI.8). He also states that class VII coins of the Canterbury moneyer Walter are not quite as rare as IS implied in his paper, with three examples present in the Gisors hoard. He mentions that he has an imitation in which IS may be interested; the obverse has a reverse barred (i.e. retrograde?) N and the reverse reads +ROGER:OFNIG. Finally, he states that he is undertaking a die study of the short-cross pennies of the Oxford mint and would be grateful to see photographs of any such coins in Ian Stewart's collection. This letter has Ian Stewart's annotations in the left margin.
(b) letter, manuscript, single page, dated 4 May 1981, thanking IS for the offprints and for allowing him to see IS's draft text on the class VIx and VId coinages. He comments briefly on the survival of class VId coins, which had not been recognised when the Eccles and Colchester hoards were catalogued, but mostly responds to a query that IS had addressed to him about characteristics of particular coins and their implications for classification. There is a page of notes in the hand of IS that appears to be best associated with this letter. It shows manuscript drawings of letters forms and saltire crosses on a page of lined paper, identifying them with specific class VI sub-groups.
(c) card, manuscript. dated 13 August 1981, stating that the Lockett class VI short-cross penny with ornamental letters and two curls each side of the bust has the following inscriptions: O/ hENRCVSR/EX; R/ +ABEL-ON-LVNDE.