Nicolas Thoynard - John Locke - 1698-10-26
Nicolas Thoynard
Nicolas Thoynard - John Locke - 1698-10-26
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 16100 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | |
| InventoryInventory number. | |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Nicolas Thoynard |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | John Locke |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | October 26, 1698 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Jean-Baptiste Du Bos |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | De Beer 1976-1989, letter 2497De Beer 1976-1989, Minc 1985, pp. 113-14Minc 1985, Burnett 2020b, p. 689Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Jewish , Samaritan , Herodian , Herod The Great, Agrippa , Antigonus , Simon Maccabeus |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | French |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'Mr. Du Bos brought me three very rare medals with so-called Samaritan characters. On one of them there appears the legible inscription ΒΑCΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝ, who could only be the last king of the Jews of the Hasmonean dynasty. The only reason that I can give for Samaritan characters still being used in such a late period is that it is an archaism, similar to our coins that bear Latin legends. I will have them accurately engraved. He also brought me two other small [medals] struck in the time of Simon Maccabeus of which I have clearer [specimens]. These were together with another [medal] of ΗΡΩΔΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on which Mr. Du Bos read LΓΙ which would indicate "year 13". This would greatly upset the chronology of the Herodians. I made him see, however, that the "I" is the monogram of Tyre slightly effaced, and I showed him a similar medal on which it is very clear, so that this [date] comes to "year 3" on this medal which is of Agrippa the Great.' (English translation from Minc 1985, pp. 113)
