]> 2026-05-28T22:39:43+00:00 Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13 0 en 51.75201,-1.25785 1695-07-13Z 2340339.5 <nowiki>Since my coming here I have bought a purchase of Roman coyns Copper turnd up by a Plough about a mile or two hence, I cannot yet certainly learn ye place wch I disir to see but am inquiring after it, they were found in an Urn or Earthen pott, about 9^li weight of them wherof I have 4 or 5^li or more as many as cost me an Angel. Some I have will favour cleansd (for I know not ye disird way how to do it, it may bee you may \and if you do tell me/ & they are of these sorts ''Constantius'', \''Constantinus''/, ''Gratianus'', ''Valens'' & the son(?) ''Valentinianus''. They DN VALENS & P F AVG & on ye reverse of some a ''Victoria Alata'', on others ''A Roman soldier'' drawing some Enemy by the hair wch on the reverse ''Gloria Romanorum \A bird on a Globe'', or rock, a Romany Pal/// ''Gloria Novi Saeculi''/. On others other figures A Roman \Armd/ particularly with his spear striking down an enemy on Horseback, & overturning both, with this inscription ''Fel Temp Reparatio''. On others with divers figures \an(?)/ single \///// double ''Secuitas Reipublicae'', ''felicitas Reipub: Virtus exercitus \Gloria'' or ''Feleicitas Novi Saeculi''/. In very many is the Labarum Xrianu’ [drawing of christogram], most of them very playn. If my father thinks they are of any value or rarity I will willingly transit to you, for I have scores of some, & of others fewer. In severall of Gratians on ye reverse is a wreath of Laurea // ''VOY X MVLT XX'' with the places at ye bottom wher Coynd. \Some have also at ye bottom ''S LO/ S.Const, S.Rom''. One of them with ''Caput Galeatu’ & Roma'' inscribed on one side, on ye other Lupus Romanus wth Romulus & Remus sucking \two ////s/. Then on about 3 or 4 //// wch are not yet cleansd, & what they are I know not, but suppose about ye same time & age in ye Description of ye Roman Empire – here in Britayn, & when they were scampering hence; I might bee able to say more had I seen ye place where they were turned up, or ye pott in wch they were found. When I was a boy at Oxon, I was much acquainted with these matters, but now without books of Medayls ritayn only some little yt I have not forgott quite. If they be worth nothing, the very copper will pay for the purchase. Most of these wch I have cleansd are very legible. Such things as ///// //////, if they profitt not, & when are old we begin to be boys again.<br />* [an extended note on his text] possibly ''Signata Londiny''; \& most of/them have on the Forside DN CONSTANTIVS P F AVG. On the reverse as I sd A Roman souldier armd striking down a Briton on horseback who \with his horse tumbling/ stretches out his hand to him, The inscription is FEL TEMP REPARATIO & at ye bottom P S LON ''forte pecunia Signata Londini'' as I sd<br />Many peices have a ''victoria alata'' in diverse forms, & Roman soldiers \in divers postins(?) & habits & Aray/ with two or three Ensigns, between them, & severall other varietys.<br />Some have in ye midst of ye reverse, on one side of ye Victory \the two letters or Cypher/ OF (wch what it stands for I know not) & over agt it on the other side in some I: in others II: in others III signifying I think years of coyning or of Actio or some such thing.<br />I have lost 2 out of my pocket, shewing ym at Winton, wch I judg’d to be British peices taken up wth ye rest such odd kinds of head as you have in ye British Coyns of ye near Cambden, & on the reverse of one just such a chariot such(?) as is yr noted. What I may have in ye uncleansd peices, I know not. (Burnett 2020b, p. 1213)</nowiki> 14001 MS Smith 45, ff.199-200 Burnett 2020b, p. 1213 local finds constantius chlorus gratianus constantinus valens valentinianus labarum roma securitas romulus celtic victoria 14001 Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13 Oxford Correspondence.png 2023-06-27T13:37:41Z 2460123.0678357 2023-06-27T13:42:19Z 2460123.0710532 false Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13]] Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13# QUERYa0136fb795e3b79d7a9354f04177ac3b 0 0 csv 1 [[:Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13]] Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13# QUERY2d0b58f2fcb403407688382c693bac40