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Paper on Coins by E Hawkins

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SAL/01/02/31/01
Title
Paper on Coins by E Hawkins
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Published as “IV. Remarks upon the Coins lately discovered in the bed of the River Dove, near Tutbury, Staffordshire” by Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. Keep of the Antiquaries and Medals in the British Museum. Archaeologia , Vol. 24, 1832, pp. 148-167.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/iv-remarks-upon-the-coins-lately-discovered-in-the-bed-of-the-river-dove-near-tutbury-staffordshire-by-edward-hawkins-esq-frs-and-sa-keeper-of-the-antiquities-and-medals-in-the-british-museum/3D8F6B530B4F5FEB8796786676A758CD

Mentioned in the Minute Books Vol. 36, 15th December 1831, when it was read: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.036.044.


Tutbury Hoard in the British Museum online collections:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?place=Tutbury&object=coin&object=currency&view=grid&sort=object_name__asc&page=1


Potentially part of the Tutbury Hoard in the Potteries Museum, Hanley online collections:
https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/collections/getrecord/CFPOT_STKMG_LH_Arch_2002_K6

Some coins are listed as being in private collections and some were displayed at the site of Tutbury Castle, although this is not currently open to the public.


Hawkins’s work on this paper/Tutbury hoard was heavily referenced in this paper by Arthur John Evans: “On a hoard of coins found at Oxford, with some remarks on the coinage of the first three Edwards.” The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society, New Series, Vol. 11 (1871), pp. 264-282. Available online: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42682572?seq=1
Creator
Hawkins, Edward (1780-1867), numismatist, antiquary and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum