THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S COLLECTION OF ANGLO-SAXON COINS AS IT EXISTED IN THE MID 1790s – HUGH PAGAN

This note draws attention to the content of a notebook, now held in the British Library  compiled by Rev.Rogers Ruding (1751-1820), author of Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, in which Ruding

recorded detailed information about a total of 356 Anglo-Saxon coins that were in the British Museum collection by the mid 1790s. The notebook shows that a significant number of coins in the British Museum collection today which up to now have had “undated” provenances were already in the British Museum before the end of the eighteenth century.