Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Charles Godwyn (b 1701) was a numismatist.
Godwyn's manuscripts relating to his collection of coins. The manuscripts consist of catalogues, lists and notebooks.
The collection was formed in 1902, from papers which presumably accompanied Charles Godwyn's bequest of coins received in 1770.
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