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The award of the Medal marks our appreciation of distinguished services to numismatic studies - primarily, that and nothing else. As such I beg you to accept it. But I am sure that you will not mind, if the award to you in this fateful year of history, should be felt also to carry with it a greeting
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and remained closely connected with the institution until her death. She became an honorary
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in 1943. She was unable to attend the meeting to receive her medal and the
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received the award on Brett's behalf and read an acceptance letter. The
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and published them in 1903. In 1910 Brett became the first female curator at the
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471:"Philip of Macedon's race horse, winner at the Olympic Games, 356 B.C.", in
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from our Society to a sister Society in your great and friendly nation.
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Five Roman Gold Medallions, or, Multiple Solidi of the Late Empire
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Shear, Theodore Leslie (1925). "Excavations at Corinth in 1925".
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422:"Lampsakos; the gold staters, silver and bronze coinages", in
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in 1900. From 1900 Brett spent two years as a Fellow at the
429:"Un tresor monetaire decouvert a Cesaree en Cappadoce", in
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Baldwin, Agnes (1903). "The Cave at Vari. V. Coins".
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338:"A bronze coin of Bithynia: The Lyre, Chelys", in
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513:"The Benha hoard of Ptolemaic gold coins", in
499:"The mint of Ascalon under the Seleucids", in
450:"The aurei and solidi of the Arras hoard", in
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485:"Dated coins of Ptolemy V, 204-180 B.C.", in
464:"A new Cleopatra tetradrachm of Ascalon", in
436:"Tetradrachms of Demetrius Poliorcertes", in
408:"The double sestertius of Trajan Decius", in
401:"An unedited gold stater of Lampsakos", in
359:"Facing heads on ancient Greek coins", in
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345:"The gold coinage of Lampsacus", in
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