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Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14

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Thomas Owen, Aleppo

Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-03-14
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  16039
InstitutionName of Institution. London, Royal Society
InventoryInventory number. MS 254/414
AuthorAuthor of the document. Thomas Owen
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. William Sherard
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . March 14, 1716
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Aleppo 36° 11' 57.26" N, 37° 9' 49.41" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. Paul Lucas
LiteratureReference to literature. Burnett 2020b, p. 6201
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Forgeries , Gordianus , Otho , Roman Provincial , Philip , Herennia Etruscilla , Samos , Gallienus
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
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'Since my Last, Monsr Lucas has bin very Industrious to dispose of false medals; & the Gordianus Afri. wth his Son, wch you mentiond 7ber the 15th, was brought to me wth a Greek Otho; wch had so much the Air of Antiquity, yt 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 wch 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 wth him abt 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, wthout 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 wth a Letter, desiring C. Care[w] to beware of his Sharping tricks & Contrivance.'

(Royal Society, MS 254/414; Burnett 2020b, p. 620)

References

  1. ^  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.