George North (numismatist) He corresponded with the numismatist Patrick Kennedy on the coins of Carausius and Allectus. Among North's books was his manuscript account of Saxon and English coins, with drawings by Edward Hodsol. It later came into the possession of Rogers Ruding, with two plates engraved by North to accompany a dissertation (not completed) on the coins of Henry III. North also compiled "A Table of English Silver Coins from the Conquest to the Commonwealth, with Remarks": a transcript by Andrew Gifford was in 1780 in the collection of Mark Cephas Tutet. His notes on Joseph Ames's "Typographical Antiquities" were made use
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