Item 1983/1 - Two letters from Stewart Lyon

2 items, paper

Two letters from Stewart Lyon:
(a) in typescript, two pages, dated 9 May 1983, thanking IS for sending a copy of the Grierson Festschrift and complimenting his "paper on Offa for the Dolley memorial" but taking issue with the importance that he gives to certain letter forms in Offa's later coinage. To illustrate his point, he reproduces Christopher Blunt's list of Offa's moneyers in South-East England and East Anglia. There is also discussion of Offa's light series, particularly with regard to the portrait coins in the queen's name struck under the moneyer Eoba at Canterbury and to whether Dud and Udd were the same person. SL concludes with four brief but specific points on the paper.
(b) in manuscript, one page, dated 10 May 1983, following up on the letter of the previous day with figures for royal and ecclesiastical coins from Canterbury and discussion of the same. In conclusion, SL asks whether there is scope here for a joint paper and notes the "resemblance between Beaghard reverse and that of Tidheah for Eadbarht Praen".