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- [1993] (Creation)
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Two letters from Jeffrey Mass dealing partly with the Wainfleet (Croft Bank) hoard of 1990:
(a) typescript, dated 20 July [1993], thanking IS for his letter and offprint. He describes some of his latest coin acquisitions and proposes an exchange with IS. He says that he may attend the coroner's inquest for the new Lincolnshire hoard on 29 July and in any case will be viewing the coins at the BM during the first week in August.
(b) typescript, dated 27 July [1993], thanking IS for his telephone call regarding strategies for the plates. He plans to discuss the matter with Barrie Cook when he views the "Great Lincolnshire short-cross hoard of 1993" [sic] on 2 August. He describes the hoard as containing "some 383 unseen coins, including 18 new examples of [class] Ia", which identifies the hoard as the Wainfleet hoard of 1990. He hopes to be able to show IS an inventory of the hoard when they meet at Baldwin's on 6 August. The remainder of the letter focuses on JPM's recent coin collecting activities.
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The hoard to which JPM refers in his letters of 20 & 27 July is the Wainfleet (Croft Bank) hoard, Lincolnshire, which consisted in 383 coins (380 pence and three cut half-pence), was found in 1990, not 1993. In another letter dated only 12 December (JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/MASS/----/-), JPM refers to "that day in September 1993 when I secured all those Wainfleet coins". The letters of 20 & July therefore must antedate September 1993.