William Nicolson - James Sutherland - 1699-12-04

William Nicolson

William Nicolson - James Sutherland - 1699-12-04

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14471
InstitutionName of Institution.	Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland
InventoryInventory number.	MS 33.3.19, ff.2v-3r
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Nicolson
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	James Sutherland
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	December 4, 1699
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Robert Sibbald
LiteratureReference to literature.	Pagan 20191, Burnett 2020b, pp. 906, 15392
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Saxon , Hoard
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

Export: CSV

RDF

Map

You can move or zoom the map to explore other correspondence!

Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'I would also hope for draughts of all your Coins, considerably different, as low as King James the 7^th coming into England. I say wher they are considerably different: for I sould not desyre to trouble ane Engraver (or a Reader) with multiplying pieces that diagree only in bulk or date, if their Inscriptions are the same in the main & the size and year wherin they differ may be safely accounted for without such nice descriptions and distinctions of ’em in the Copper plate. ...
I had Lately an Account from Canterbury of a great Many Varieties observ’d by one Gentleman in the Coins of Ethelred K. of Kent which he sends me under the title Nomina Locorum et Monetariorum Quae in Ethelredi R. Nummis occurrunt

Mo Lundoni God Cantua Leofric
Mo Lundoni Leofric - Caent Aelfstane
Mo Lundoni Godwine - Mo Lund Godwine
Mo Lundoni Wulfric - Mo Lund Osulf
Mo Lundoni Sibwine - Mo Lundonj Aelfstan
Mo Lundoni Birkusige - Mo Lundoni Leolfstan
M Eadlaf - Mo Lundonj Eadmund
Deoraby - Mo Lundonj Eadmund
Mo Caentua Eadwold - Mo Lundoni Kynfige
Mo Caentua Bord - Mo Lundo Osrylol
Mo Caentua Lifronj - Mo Lundo Osuilf
Mo Caentua Doia - besydes one of Lincoln, one of Rochester and one of Norwich

Here are no lesse than twenty six Reverses of the same Kings money; which would tempt a man to believe the Saxons study’d Variety in these matters as much as the Romans. This is not true. However here’s ane ample testimony of the greate Easyness in these princes to grant power of Coinage to almost any place or person that desyred it. [A PS:] Sr RS is pleasd to tell me that I shall have his instructions in order of my Chapters by the post: and if you please to begin at the highest you can goe with your Coins, and descend Regularly (by single Kings or Centuries) you will //// on your work with the greater Ease, both to your self and me. After y^e drudgery of the winter is over, I hope we shall meet in the Spring or Summer; and refresh our Selves with a Cup of cold water among our Mountains.'

(NLS, MS 33.3.19, ff.2v-3r; Burnett 2020b, pp. 906, 1539)

RemarksRemarks regarding the annotation. (en)

Letter is Copied by Robert Sibbald in his Adversaria (NLS, MS 33.3.19). (en)

References

^ Pagan, H. (2019) A Forgotten Hoard of Coins of the First Hand type of Aethelred II, British Numismatic Journal 89, pp. 208-12.
^ 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.