]> 2026-05-29T23:28:33+00:00 Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03 0 en 54.321122222222,-1.5385277777778 1743-12-03Z 2358013.5 'As for the Augustus with Caius Marius on the reverse that I had from, & returned it to you by Mr. Collins, it is not a medal of the great Caius Marius, but struck by his grandson, Caius Marius Trogus, one of the mint masters under Augustus. The Otho that came with it was plainly a coin of Nero, altered by some artist into an Otho, & the reverse of it purposely defaced to prevent the discovery of the fraud, as farr as he could do it, by obliterating a type that would have made it too evident. Mr. Collins was mistaken if he told you that I valued the former at two guineas, it being not worth more than half a guinea, & I have a very fair one of that sort which cost me much lesse. I wish you had sent me the reverse of the other Otho that you have since gott; I could then have made some guessc at the truth of it. It is now generally agreed by the most & best judges that all the coins in copper of that short lived Emperor, which have any other type on their reverse except SC in a garland, are counterfeits, as they are allso if they want a laurel about the head, as I have one of undoubted antiquity, & the silver one of Marius. I have no occasion to purchase either of them myself, neither do I know any one in these parts that has a tast for such curiositys. London is the only market for such things, & if what you have are genuin, they will not long want a chapman there. I am sorry that I cannot gratifye you in your request to send you some Roman Denarii; the beauty of my stock consists chiefly in the Consular, not but that I have a good show of Imperial, which are all brought into exact order ; & though I have a great many, I cannot call them duplicates of the same Emperor, because they have different reverses, which makes every one of them a different medal, & to take any out of them would falsifye & deform the catalogue that I have taken great pains to compile of them. Many of those you desire are very scarce, & such as I never yet could make myself master of, & therefore hope you will excuse' (Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 pp. 471-2; Burnett 2020b, pp. 396, 1308) 14276 English Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 pp. 471-2 Burnett 2020b, pp. 396, 1308 augustus marius triumviri monetales otho nero forgeries coin price bronze coins denarius roman republican roman imperial rarity catalogue 14276 Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03 Scruton Correspondence.png 2023-07-25T12:43:05Z 2460151.029919 2023-09-28T10:56:07Z 2460215.9556366 false Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03]] Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03# QUERY0b6698ddcae9964077c2def47b2fbab3 0 0 csv 1 [[:Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03]] Roger Gale - Cornelius Little - 1743-12-03# QUERY41c3281eedd8df9a64c5610dd47cd289