]> 2026-05-28T23:42:40+00:00 Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2 0 en 51.22111,4.39971 1591-05-02Z 2302281.5 2 May 1591 (from Antwerp): “S. P. optime nepos. Litteras tuas argumenti plenas gratissime accepi. Tu nondum quae ego cum Woudnellii mercibus miserum, intellego. Accipies autem, spero. Nummos quos apud Askum vidisti, novi memoria, eosdem enim mihi ostendit olim, quae desiderat, desideranda sunt, potis quam possidenda, quis enim Pescennium Nigrum ex AE? Si vellet carere aureo suo Caro, haberet à me Alex. Magnum, aut Philippum eius patrem, etiam ex auro, extra omnem controversiam antiquum, praeterea integerrimum. Scis, et scit quantum auro sint ponderosiores prisci hi nummi, qua milli declinantis Imperii, sub quo Carus. Theatrum meum recudo, eius media pars recusa ante annum fuit, inter quam folium quod Britannicas continet; itaque illud iam mutari non potest. De huius virginibus quod tam benè mereri studeas, te laudo plurimum” – comments on various plates of the Theatrum but without numismatic relevance (Paris, Fondation Custodia, Frits Lugt Collection, 1972 A-3; Hessels 1887, no. 196, p. 473-474). ['I knew from memory the coins which you saw at Aske’s house. For he once showed me the same ones. What he desires are to be desired, rather than possessed. For who has a Pescennius Niger in bronze? If he should wish to be without his gold Carus, he would have from me an Alexander the Great, or his father Philip, and of gold, ancient beyond any argument, and particularly well-preserved. You know, and he knows, how much heavier these ancient coins are than those of the declining Empire, when Carus was.' (partial translation from Burnett 2020b, p. 156)] 498 Frits Lugt Collection, 1972 A-3 Latin Hessels 1887, no. 196, pp. 473-474 Callataÿ 2017, p. 93, n° 71 Burnett 2020b, pp. 156, 213, 216 greek roman pescennius carus alexander the great philip ii 498 Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2 Antwerp Correspondence.png 2019-07-03T06:19:33Z 2458667.7635764 2023-09-19T15:19:03Z 2460207.1382292 false Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2]] Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2# QUERY167892ad5171ecd40619ba98b7488d2a 0 0 csv 1 [[:Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2]] Abraham Ortelius - Jacob Cool - 1591-5-2# QUERY149fc5834c83ea1cd05bb50523b762b6