'The first errand I have for them, is the making my due acknowledgements for the generous present your last brought me. Half a score coins of our old Northumbrian kings are a treasure, which (as soon as ever I came to myself) I could not but esteem above all the riches of the French monarch. I know you do not look for an answerable return; it is impossible you should expect any such thing from me. Without compliment, and by all the faith of my masters, the Antiquaries, I am proud of your token. I have not yet had leisure to consider the several pieces, but, as soon as it is possible for me, I shall gratefully impart my conjectures upon them. I doubt not but you are right in your reading of such inscriptions as your’s brings me. I think I told you that these pieces (as I wrote to cousin Pearson) I look upon as those which our ancestors called [----], two whereof made a farthing; like the widow’s mite in the Gospel, where we meet with this word. You cannot more oblige me than by communicating your observations on such others of them as relate to the kingdom of Northumberland, which, perhaps, they all do.' (Hunter 1832, vol. 1, pp. 219-21; Burnett 2020b, p. 868)
