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, 15541
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	British Coins , Museum , Cunobelin , Celtic , Forgeries , Coin Types , Spelling , Saxon
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'[Discusses 5 ancient British coins] The first is undoubtedly one of those pieces w^ch gave occasion to the counterfeiting so many coins (as are now to be met w^th 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. Wh^t then, will you say, becomes of the Several Kinds w^ch are said so fairly to bear the name of this Cunobeline? Most of them are visibly Counterfeits. I s^d 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)

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^ Burnett 2020b pp. 1505