William Nicolson - John Sharp - n.d.
William Nicolson
William Nicolson - John Sharp - n.d.
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14408 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Gloucestershire Archives |
| InventoryInventory number. | D3549/6/5/5 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | William Nicolson |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | John Sharp I |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Edward Lhuyd |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Burnett 2020b pp. 1505, 1554Burnett 2020b pp. 1505 |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | British Coins , Museum , Cunobelin , Celtic , Forgeries , Coin Types , Spelling , Saxon |
| 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".
'[Discusses 5 ancient British coins] The first is undoubtedly one of those pieces wch gave occasion to the counterfeiting so many coins (as are now to be met wth in our English musaea) usually ascribed to K. Cunobeline. I have a good while had a fancy (which my Friend Mr Lhwyd has taken a good deal of fruitless pains to remove) that none of our old Brittish Kings coin’d any money; at least with their own Image & Supersciption. Wht then, will you say, becomes of the Several Kinds wch are said so fairly to bear the name of this Cunobeline? Most of them are visibly Counterfeits. I sd think he would rather have chosen, if the matter had been of his own ordering, to have had his name spell’d (according to the orthography of his Native Country) Kynvelyn, then in compliment to his Roman Education Cunobeline....
... not Current money, but that they are some of the Amulets used by almost all Pagan nations. ... I cannot give you so good an Account of the Saxon pieces as you expect (5 of them) ...'
(Gloucestershire Archives, D3549/6/5/5, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1505, 1554)
