Seventh International Symposium in Early Medieval Coinage Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Saturday, 13th October 2018 Newsletter SEMC is again hosted by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge this October. The Theme & Programme The overall theme is England and the Wider World. The provisional programme includes: Chris Scull & Andy Woods: Current work on the Rendlesham Hoard, Stewart Lyon & Hugh Pagan: Some issues in Northumbrian chronology, Kelly Marie Clarke & Katie Howarth: ‘Pierced, looped and framed: the (re)use of coins in jewellery in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England’, Adrian Marsden & Arent Pol: the Norfolk hoard of Merovingian tremisses, Rory Naismith: 'A Mantle of Silver: England and Western Europe c. 900-1100'. Registration & Charges Just email me (details below) before 1st October. The only charge is £10 payable in cash on entry on Saturday towards the cost of morning and afternoon refreshments. Space is limited so book early! Registration is now open. Friday Evening Pizza As previously this gives us some social time to relax and catch up. The venue will be Pizza Express, 7a Jesus Lane, 7:00 pm for 7:15. Those wishing to attend should let me know before 1st October. The cost is typically around £30 per head. Bring coins! Bring the family! Check the web for convenient parking – the nearest is Park Street Car Park. Saturday Please assemble in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s new foyer at 10:00am prompt. Proceed directly to the basement Seminar Room, where registration will be brief. Please bring your own name badge. Saturday Lunch arrangements A good lunch is to be had at the Graduate Centre, to which we will guide you. There is a generous 90 minutes in the programme to allow you to return refreshed! Publicity If you can improve the design of the conference poster below, please contact me as soon as possible. If you have contacts that could be usefully included in the database, please advise (Data Protection Act permitting). If you think we might fruitfully gain publicity elsewhere, please let me know – or just take the initiative yourself and copy me in. If you want to be unsubscribed, please advise. Publications There are have been a number of recent publications in the British Academy’s Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: 63: British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I. Early Anglo-Saxon Gold and Anglo-Saxon and Continental Silver Coinage of the North Sea Area, c. 600-760, by Anna Gannon, 65: Norwegian Collections, Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016, by Elina Screen, 67: British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Coins II. Southern English Coinage from Offa to Alfred c. 760-880, by Rory Naismith, 68: The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins, by Stewart Lyon, 69: The Abramson Collection: Coins of Early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea Area, by Tony Abramson. Also published recently are: Medieval European Coinage, volume 8, Britain and Ireland c.400-1066, by Rory Naismith, Sceatta List, second edition by Tony Abramson, with over 100 additional varieties, Studies in Early Medieval Coinage volumes 1 and 3 and all of the above are available from Spink: https://www.spink.com/ And finally... ...without the active support of our friends at the Fitzwilliam, BNS and elsewhere, Martin and Rory amongst others, this would all be so much more difficult. I look forward to seeing you all, With best wishes, Tony Abramson, t.abramson@ntlworld.com Tel: 0113 225 0680. Mob: 07884 113388. Web: http://www.Anglo-Saxon-Coinage.co.uk Illustrations: Obverses of gold shillings of King Eadbald of Kent and Bishop Paulinus of York