'Yesterday, Mr Ballard, the taylor of Campden in Gloucestershire, called upon me, and shewed me several old Coins of very good value that he had picked up, one of wch was a copper one of Albinus of the bigger size, a bigger one in copper of Philip the elder, for wch he said he gave five shillings, & he said both of them were found at Cirencester, besides many others. He said he had got a silver Otho for wch a Gentleman had offered him 5 libs, but yet he said ’twas dubious. I have a silver one myself. Silver ones are rare, but ’tis the Copper ones that are of that great scarceness, as I can not ever pretend to have seen a genuine one, that of the Earl of Abington’s (wch I formely saw in Dr Stratfords’s hands being to me suspectae fidei. ... This Ballard does little or nothing about his Trade, but rambles about after Coins & endeavours to make a perfect series of the Roman ones. He lives chiefly upon his mother....'
(Hearne 1885, vol. 10 p. 117; Burnett 2020b, pp. 1048 n. 354, 1309)
