John Conduitt - Hans Sloane 1716-06-17
John Conduitt
John Conduitt - Hans Sloane 1716-06-17
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14059 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | London, British Library |
| InventoryInventory number. | Sloane MS 4044, ff.183-4 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | John Conduitt |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Hans Sloane |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | June 17, 1716 |
| 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. | Burnett 2020b, p. 1274 n. 942Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Roman , Inscriptions , Otho , Augustus , Julius Caesar , Triumviri Monetales , Local Finds |
| 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".
'I have pick’d up between six & seven hundred medals, & procur’d some Roman inscriptions on marble. A great many of the medals are coarse & few of them are so beautiful as those I saw in Italy. I here enclose the copy of one w’ch by the letters on the reverse I took att first to be an Otho, but am afraid it is ane Augustus, & that those letters relate to M. Salvius Otho Grandfather to the Emperor of that name who is mention’d in Suetonius & I presume was one of the Triumviri Monetales who during the reigns of Julius Cæsar & Augustus had their names stampt on the reverse of the coins of their Emperours. I have bought the greatest part of my medals in parcells, some I have met with amongst the brass mony that is current here, I have near a hundred that were found by plowmen about a league from hence amongst some ruins, wc’h, by the inscriptions on the medals found there, & several other concurring circumstances, I take to be the remains of the famous Carteia….' (BL Sloane MS 4044, ff.183-4; Burnett 2020b, p. 1274 n. 942)
