Thomas Tanner - Matthew Postlethwayte - 1727-10-07
Thomas Tanner
Thomas Tanner - Matthew Postlethwayte - 1727-10-07
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 16173 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Cambridge, Corpus Christi College |
| InventoryInventory number. | MS 587, f.247 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Thomas Tanner |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Matthew Postlethwayte |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | October 7, 1727 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Sommerlad 1962, pp. 336-7 n. 4Sommerlad 1962, Burnett 2020b, pp. 734-5Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | English , Gold , Silver , Goldsmiths , Melting Down |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'I don’t know whether I have not formerly desired you among other Friends, to gratify my Curiosity wth any pieces of old Gold or Silver English Coins. Now and then such things are to be met wth in some Families, where good people have made little purses of old pennies and odd pieces of Gold & Silver money, wch are often carried to the Goldsmiths, sold for weight & melted down, so that if you can rescue any such I would give a better price, than the Goldsmiths will if the owners have a mind to part wth them; if they have no mind to part wth them, and they are Curious pieces I should be glad of a sight of them by any safe Conveyance. Such Gold coins as I mean, are such as were of the Reigns before K. James I., and silver ones broad and fair any before the Restoration of K. Ch. II., the Common Coins since those two Epocha’s I have I believe pretty compleat. I have given away my Roman Coins, nor care for any forreign ones but only such of our own nation since the Conquest.' (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 587, f.247; Sommerlad 1962, pp. 336-7 n. 4; Burnett 2020b, pp. 734-5)
