Item 1996/1 - Two letters from Heinrich Ihl, the second with one attachment

2 items, paper

Two letters from Heinrich Ihl, the second with one attachment:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 26 March 1996, thanking IS for the two offprints received by way of Dr Ilisch and Prof. Berghaus, sending the first and second parts of his "Münzprägung der Edelherrn zur Lippe" on Lemgo and Horn, and saying that the third and fourth parts on Blomberg, Lippe and coins of uncertain attribution are in progress. Concerning the latter, he plans to build on IS's corpus of [German] short-cross imitations in the Numismatic Chronicle [in 1995]. He refers to Peter Ilisch's dating of the earliest short-cross imitations in Münster to before 1218, noting that Lippstadt and Lemgo might have started soon after that, with the Rotenfels piece being among the earliest. He proposes to discuss imitations of Scottish sterlings and to assign "the famous sterling from the Coventry and Brussels hoard[s]" to Blomberg rather than Enger. He says that he is also dealing with the long-cross imitations, which were struck continuously from 1250 to about 1279, focusing on the period from 1265 to 1275.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 15 May 1996, thanking IS for his letter and "the useful book" but dealing mostly with procuring material with which to illustrate his book. He says that he is interested to know whether Mr J. North us aware of any new long-cross sterlings from his region and would appreciate it if IS were to put Mr North in touch with him. He notes an enclosure of "a copy of Peter Ilisch's page[s] about the Rosenkreuz coins. The attachment is an excerpt from a longer piece, the bibliographical details for which are not given. The excerpt is made up of pages 76-81, which list coins of Ludolf von Holte, 1227-1248. Examples 6-9 are short-cross imitations with rosettes in the angles of the cross, generally described as Pfennige (Sterlings).