Item 1971-1972/1 - Two letters from Robert Seaman

2 items, paper

Two letters from Robert Seaman:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 30 September 1971, explaining that he has had time enough only to make a hurried check of his notes on Stephen's coinage "to extract entries of annulets on reverse". He expresses doubts about Mr Andrew's contention that the moneyer Baldwin of London was a Reading moneyer and says that he has not been able to trace a photo of any Baldwin coin with annulet, though he adds that he possesses "a fine coin of Stephen struck at London by Baldwin on which there are no annulets". He notes that Ipswich coins are and that he has no photos of any annulet specimen; the Ipswich coin in his own collection from the moneyer OSBERN has no annulets. He refers to an attachment but there is no attachment associated with the letter. In a postscript, he notes that the London moneyers SMEAPINE and LIEFRED are noted in Mack.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto and verso), dated 29 September 1972, commenting on a draft paper of IS [for his Stefanus R article?] in regard to an altered die of Henry I, noting IS appears not to have acknowledged Andrew's observations of 1921 on altered dies.