Nathaniel Salmon - Beaupré Bell - 1729-05-17

Nathaniel Salmon, Stortford

Nathaniel Salmon - Beaupré Bell - 1729-05-17

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	15424
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Nathaniel Salmon
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Beaupré Bell
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	May 17, 1729
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Stortford ^{51° 52' 3.47" N, 0° 9' 47.52" E}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	William Camden
LiteratureReference to literature.	Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 149-501, Burnett 2020b, pp. 394, 9162
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	British Coins , Celtic , Commius , Julius Caesar , Cassivellaunus , Cunobelin , Augustus
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'Some of the coins I mentioned from Camden's plates are of British princes contemporary with Caesar; and therefore, if his authority be good, these could have no impressed money, or we must imagine they had it almost as soon as he.
The tenth of the first plate is attributed to Comius Attrebatensis, whom Caesar sent hither from Gaul, and I don't find he was a prince in Britain.
The fifteenth is thought to mean Dummacus, a prince of the Andes, mentioned by Caesar.
The nineteenth is of Cassibelan, general againft Caesar.
Even Cynobeline must have been contemporary with Caesar, or within a very little of being so, if he was deposed by Cassibelan, and lived in Augustus' court. He is reckoned to have governed the Trinobantes in the lime of Augustus. We have no account of the nation's being enriched under this emperor, that they should have more gold and silver than before.
I confess it a mistake, to assert none of these coins under the denomination of British were brass; there were a few such, but not a tenth part.
If Cynobeline carried home the first of these coins, those princes I mentioned above could have none. It is hard to believe he should take up a fashion so young in the world, or that Augustus should countenance it.'

(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 149-50; Burnett 2020b, p. 394)

References

^ Nichols, John (ed.), Reliquiae Galeanae, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica II.1 (London, 1781), II.2 (London, 1781), III (London, 1790).
^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.