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Thomas Hearne, 1729/04/09

Thomas Hearne - 1729-04-09
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PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
AuthorAuthor of the document. Thomas Hearne
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. George Ballard, Montagu Venables-Bertie, William Stratford
Publication dateDate when the publication was issued: day - month - year . April 9, 1729
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Clodius Albinus , Philip The Arab, Coin Price , Local Finds , Otho
LiteratureReference to literature. Hearne 1885, vol. 10 p. 1171, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1048 n. 354, 13092
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'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)

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References

  1. ^  Hearne, Thomas (1885-1921) Remarks and Collections, Vols. I-XI, Oxford, Oxford Historical Society.
  2. ^  Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.