Item 2006/1 - Two letters from Anna Gannon

2 items, paper

Two letters from Anna Gannon:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 12 August 2006, apologising for replying to IS's letter of 1 February [2006] only now. She refers to Lucia Travaini's article on the Merovingian mint of Avenches and the earliest coins bearing an image of Christ ("La zecca merovingia di Avenches e le prime monete con il volto di Cristo", Quaderni ticinesi di Numismatica e Antichità Classica, vol. 32 (2003), pp. 291-301), noting that LT identifies the image on a Merovingian tremissis of about 625 (moneyer = Agiulfus) as representing Christ. AG agrees that the image on IS's Anglo-Saxon sceatta also represents Christ. She refers to an enclosure – no longer with the letter – consisting in an old article in which she argues that the image on another coin is likewise a representation of Christ.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 25 September 2006, thanking IS for his article and offering a few additional comments. She seeks to clarify that the "series Q" coins are made up of varied types, unlike the more uniform series R. She refers IS to Belting's book Likeness and Presence. She disagrees that the Anglo-Saxon sceatta resembles the second coin of Justinian II (Semitic type of 705), suggesting instead that the image might have derived from some other portable, non-numismatic prototype.