]> 2026-05-30T00:15:13+00:00 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14 0 en 36.199238888889,37.163725 1716-03-14Z 2347888.5 'Since my Last, Mons^r Lucas has bin very Industrious to dispose of false medals; & the Gordianus Afri. w^th his Son, w^ch you mentiond 7^ber the 15^th, was brought to me wth a Greek Otho; w^ch had so much the Air of Antiquity, y^t had It not bin for the bad Company It kept, I had bin catchd by that rambling Sharper. And a few days since were brought to me 15 medals 8 of w^ch I dare affirm to be false; but were sent wth 2 Philippus, a ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ & the rest vendible, tho not uncommon, for a Blind. The false ones were Erennia Etruscilla, wth the reverse ϹΑΜΙΩΝ. Meleager apru’ sistens, hasta’ eum Confossurus. Gallienus, the Reverse, ϹΑΜΙΩΝ, the figure I presume to be Juno pronuba & Nemesis stantes cu’ Attributis. Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ. The Reverse, to the Best of my Remembrance, navis cum Remigantibus, in Imo Delphinus. I sent for him, & advisd w^th him ab^t the Otho & Gordianus; & he very frankly told me they were false, but stiffly denyd They were His; whereupon I putt him into no little Confusion by telling him he had offerd a Gordianus Father & Son, wⁿ last at Smirna, to the Engl. Consul, as like It as two Peas. I took no notice of him of the 15, esteeming him a common Cheat & false-hearted Frenchman; & wⁿ he came to visit me abt a fortnight since, & desird the Duplicates of some small medals for a pretended nephew of His, I resented his great Incivility in sending away his medals & plants by a french bark from Scanderoon to Marseilles, w^thout giving me a sight of them, & Assurd him he should neither have nor see a medal more of mine. Indeed, I should not wonder at his pilfering on a safe Occasion, so bad an Opin[ion] I entertain of him. He came 2 or three days ne[xt] to take his Leave of me, but I did not think fit to return his Visit, & this Day he set out for Tripoly where I shall follow him w^th a Letter, desiring C. Care[w] to beware of his Sharping tricks & Contrivance.' (Royal Society, MS 254/414; Burnett 2020b, p. 620) 16039 MS 254/414 English Burnett 2020b, p. 620 forgeries gordianus otho roman provincial philip herennia etruscilla samos gallienus 16039 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14 Aleppo Correspondence.png 2023-11-20T11:47:16Z 2460268.9911574 2023-11-20T11:47:16Z 2460268.9911574 true Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14# QUERYffa75b57ba48a6df27f4fa4ab8200cca 0 0 csv 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14# QUERY09c9db147403ca6a41d3c976bf587dc6