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- 1986 (Creation)
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3 items, paper
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Two letters from Peter Seaby with one attachment:
(a) letter, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 14 January 1986, noting that he has not been in touch with IS for some time. He says that he has been working on the defaced Stephen coins of the Sussex mints and asks IS whether he would be willing to look at a first draft of the paper, which forms the attachment. PJS also mentions that he has put a paper up for publication in an IAPN volume. The paper suggests "that the 'Robert de Stuteville' pennies are probably [from] an issue of Robert de Béthuse, Advocate of St Vaast's at Arras. In closing, he expresses an interest in learning of any finds of irregular Stephen coins.
(b) letter, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 29 January 1986, thanking IS for his letter and the reminder about the Brand coin in Glendining's October sale and noting a possible correlation between moneyers who survived into type XV and those who are known (or might be expected) to be ecclesiastical. PJS also supposes that "there may be little reason why the die engravers were in any way involved in the trial of the moneyers", even "though the style of engraving may suggest that there was a change of master die-sinkers with type XIII".
(c) draft paper entitled "The defaced pennies of Stephen from Sussex mints", by Peter Seaby, in typescript, five pages of text plus one page of references and a further page of illustrations, with corrections in manuscript.