]> 2026-05-30T01:54:21+00:00 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17 0 en 36.199238888889,37.163725 1716-01-17Z 2347831.5 'This returns you my hearty thanks for y^r obliging lines by Mons^r Paul Lucas, who arrived here the 8^th, & has since made me several Visits. I gave him a sight of y^os medals, w^ch I sent the Catalogue of; & on his recommendatⁿ, made a purchase of ’em for myself, paying somew^t more yⁿ a hundred dollars; & if M^r Cross is disposed to purchase them, I shall insist on 200. For, though they may not be worth to you above 30 to 40, as having much the greatest p^rt of them already; yet to a novice, such I esteem Mr Cross & myself, they make a fine shew, & will find Employm^t for some time. I heartily wish, I had not desird you to forward the Catalogue; since It may prevent my obliging you w^th some particular medals you seem to desire of that parcel, which I am very ready to Do, & would be content wth the rest. In my last, X^ber 1^st, if I mistake not, I mentiond a parcel brought to me, containing some 1000s of the L. Empire, w^ch at first I scornd & dismissd; but some days after resolvd on a regular Collectn of the L. Emp. wth different Reverses, & of different sizes; y^rfore bargaind to pick as many as I pleasd at 100 p’ dollar, & culld 600, the most Legible, These I likewise presented to Mons^r Paul, who disdaind to Examine them; but (to my extraordinary good fortune) Coming 2 or 3 days after into my Chamber, & spying a handful of the obscurest, w^ch had puzzld me, lyeing in the window, he wantonly takes up one of them, & poring sometime over It wth his Glass, & comparing It with Vaillant, he fell a stamping, & into a profound Exstasy, affirming It was a Pescennius Niger; & indeed It has a perfect Resemblance w^th that; & he solemnly protests, the K. of France gave 500 dollars for a silver one of the same size. What credit is to be given him, I know not; but I keep the medal close, till I can have y^r opinion, & will not part wth It, but by y^r advice, & Consent. He pretends likewise to have found out another great Curiosity among several of Philip. Sen. w^ch I left out of that parcel I begd y^r Acceptance of, being Duplicates; The head is Philippus, the Reverse common (an Eagle) & of a base Alloy. But by look^g on it, he presently discovered the names of 3 Emperors, & indeed I can read (tho in bad characters) ___ ΓΑ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥϹ . . ΟΥΟΛΟΥϹϹΙΑΝΟϹ ___ Among the 600 he has likewise found L. Aelius C. very small Nerva w^th his wife (w^thout letters) pvae. ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ. min. & some others I forget whom. 15857 MS 254/413 English Burnett 2020b, pp. 580, 619-20 pescennius niger aleppo local finds silver commission catalogue roman roman imperial later roman empire philip the arab duplicates volusianus nerva commodus 15857 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17 Aleppo The coin that Lucas mentions as having been bought by the King of France is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103171441 AA.GR.654]. Correspondence.png 2023-11-03T14:27:03Z 2460252.1021181 2023-11-20T11:31:35Z 2460268.9802662 false Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17 0 en Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17#The coin that Lucas mentions as having been bought by the King of France is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103171441 AA.GR.654].;en The coin that Lucas mentions as having been bought by the King of France is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103171441 AA.GR.654]. 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17# QUERYe7578d739c16c9766ab7f6b5fba6b41c 0 0 csv 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17# QUERY12a0182d1b8a0738f97af83b842e39aa