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- 1991 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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Two letters from Jeffrey Mass dealing partly with an undeclared hoard:
(a) typescript, dated 28 August [1991], acknowledging that he will be unable to meet IS while in England this year and conveying four pieces of information about (1) developments with his collection, (2) his agreement with Martin Allen to write up an inventory and analysis of [class] Ia-Ia* [short-cross coins], (3) the submission of his brief articles for the Numismatic Circular and (4) his plans to write up a report of an unknown hoard of "approximately 70" short-cross coins that has not been declared. On the latter point, he gives an indication of how he plans to proceed and suggests that he is open to advice on the matter.
(b) typescript, dated 21 December [1991], thanking IS for his letter regarding the [BNS] Council's decision [about the undeclared short-cross hoard] and announcing that he is now prepared to abandon the idea of publishing it. He also thanks IS for his draft of the Eccles article [later published as 'English short cross coins from the Eccles hoard', NC, vol. 153 (1993), pp. 137-152], with which he "can find virtually nothing even to quibble".