ABSTRACT
Sutherland’s collection was sold by him to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh in 1705, and was acquired by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (now National Museum of Scotland), along with the rest of the Advocates’ coin collection, in 1873. Although some of Sutherland’s coins were among actual or supposed duplicates disposed of by the Museum at a Dowell’s auction in Edinburgh on 6 June 1874, the late Robert Stevenson, when putting together his 1966 SCBI volume devoted to the Anglo-Saxon coins in the Museum, was able to identify the majority of Sutherland’s Anglo-Saxon coins among the Museum’s then holdings, and Stevenson’s sensible decision to include in his volume a transcript of the relevant part of Sutherland’s manuscript catalogue provides the student with a reliable means of cross-checking the accuracy of Stevenson’s identications, some denite, others explicitly conjectural.2
