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Two letters from Michael Metcalf:
(a) manuscript, two short pages on one half-length folio (i.e. A5 landscape, recto & verso), dated 23 January 1981, acknowledging that he would like to have a joint paper by CEB and IS on "Raienalt" and assuming that this would take precedence over the early offer of IS alone of a paper on the early Scottish coinage. He also compliments IS for noticing that Lockett 316b is apparently by the same hand as Brooke I, 23, and adds that the Lockett coin is now in the Ashmolean, "ex Carter, and very coppery".
(b) manuscript, single page, dated 1 December 1981, stating that Viking volume was just published and noting that the publishers failed to print one of the Ian Stewart's table with his article. He apologises and says that he has been in contact with the publishers to see what can be done to rectify the matter. In a postscript, he adds that he has followed IS's good example by obtaining a DLitt.
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For the volume to which the second letter (b) of 1 December 1981 refers, see Viking-age coinage in the northern lands: the sixth Oxford Symposium on monetary history, ed. M. A. S. Blackburn and D. M. Metcalf (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1981; BAR International Series 122).