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- 2011 (Creation)
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5 items, paper
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Two letters from Martin Allen with attachments:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 15 August 2011, in two original versions, concerning arrangements for the subscription for the portrait medal for Mark Blackburn.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 12 October 2011, concerning plans for a volume of essays in memory of Mark Blackburn, to be edited by Martin Allen, Rory Naismith and Elina Screen.
There are three attachments:
(c) information leaflet, two pages on two folios, undated, entitled "A Medal for Mark Blackburn" (in two copies, one with each version of letter (a), providing details about the medal and the artists that collaborated in its design and production, Ian Rank-Broadley and Lisa Cardozo Kindersley.
(d) obituary for Mark Blackburn, The Times, 30 September 2011, p. 64.
(e) Money & Medals: Newsletter for Numismatics in Britain, no. 54, December 2011, with obituary for Mark Blackburn and, appropriately, a focus on coin hoards, featuring the 2010 'Near Selby' (Yorkshire) hoard of some 300 Roman denarii; the Brussels hoard of 1908, which consisted of nearly 150,000 English and Continental Medieval coins; and the 2007 Hackney hoard of 80 US gold $20 double eagles dated from 1854 to 1913.