Humfrey Wanley - Narcissus Marsh 1701-07-11
Humfrey Wanley
Humfrey Wanley - Narcissus Marsh 1701-07-11
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14029 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | |
| InventoryInventory number. | |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Humfrey Wanley |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Narcissus Marsh |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | July 11, 1701 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Wanley 1989, pp. 166-79 Letter 79Wanley 1989, Burnett 2020b, p. 1245Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Samaritan , Shape Of Letters, Legends , Forgeries , Fabric , Coin Weight , Solomon , Macchabees , Greek , Punic , Roman , British Coins |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
As to the Samaritan, I own they bear a good resemblance one to another, and that they differ very much from those Samaritan characters, which we find stamped upon divers truly Ancient and Genuine Coins. But then there seems to be such a Resemblance (as to the Character) between those Coins struck in Ages far distant from one another, that ’tis hard (from the Consideration of the Metal its Fabrick, Weight, from the Shapes of the Letters in the Inscription, &c) to say which Coin was made in the time of David, or Solomon, and which no older than the time of the Machabees; this being rather to be gathered from the Words and Meaning of their Inscriptions, than from the Figure of the Characters which Compose them. The same may be said, in a great measure, of the old Greek, Punic, Roman, Brittish and other Coins.
