Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. Vol. 68

Stewart Lyon’s book is the sixty-eighth volume in the British Academy’s Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles series (SCBI). The purpose of the series is to publish detailed and fully illustrated catalogues of coins of the British Isles in British and foreign collections. Lyon’s important private collection is a worthy addition to this numismatic canon. The collection, of more than 1,000 coins, was assembled over a period of more than sixty years and Lyon’s eye for quality specimens is clearly apparent in the plates. However, while one can appreciate the aesthetic merits of individual pieces, this was not the guiding motivation in assembling the collection; rather, it was formed with a scholarly agenda and developed in order to address a set of specific research questions. All volumes in the SCBI series consist of two parts. The first contains an introduction and supporting essays, chapters or information relevant to the

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