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 24971, Minc 1985, pp. 113-142, Burnett 2020b, p. 6893
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Jewish , Samaritan , Herodian , Herod The Great, Agrippa , Antigonus , Simon Maccabeus
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	French
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'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)

References

^ De Beer, E.S. (ed.)(1976-1989) The Correspondence of John Locke, 8 vols., Oxford, Oxford University Press.
^ Minc, Henryk (1985), "Ancient Jewish coins in the correspondence between John Locke and Nicolas Toinard", The Biblical Archaeologist, 48/2, p. 108-121.
^ 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.