Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
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'We first hear about the ‘trentaine de medai[lles] antiques Romaines de touts mettaulx, concernant vos antiquites Britanniques’ in a letter from Peiresc to Cotton written in January 1617, where he says that he had gathered them in Provence.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 153)
References
- ^ 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.