Memoir on the coin room
By: by Philip Grierson
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Byzantine Coins; Coinage; Ancient Coins; Private collections; Byzantine Collection (Dumbarton Oaks)
Notes: Memoir of Philip Grierson's tenure at Dumbarton Oaks.

Unpublished typescript with no cumulative pagination.

"... I thought it worth describing the work I have done and the way in which my coin collection (bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) was built up ... What follows is the Dumbarton Oaks Section ... [which] will be left, as an archival record, in the Coin Room at Dumbarton Oaks ..." -- Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Background; title: Collections; title: Catalogues; title: Extract from a memoir, in the coin room of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, on the making of the Philip Grierson Collection; title: Correspondence letters between Sue Boyd, the Byzantine collection curator, and Philip Grierson.