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{{Catalogue of Numismatic Collection
|Title=An account of ye examination that was made of the several Roman weights that are to be met wthin the Cabinets belonging to ye Bodleian Library Among Archbishop Lauds Roman Families
|Institution=Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
|Place=Oxford
|Inventory=MS Arch. Bod. Fol 4 (= MS Rawlinson N1)
|Author=William Elstob
|Catalogue date=1700/12/23
|CatalogueLanguage=English
|Associated persons=Humfrey Wanley; William Laud
|Literature=Berry - Kim 2005, p. 135; Burnett 2020b, p. 1248
|Numismatic keyword=roman; roman republican; aes grave
|Grand document='[[Humfrey Wanley - Arthur Charlett - 1700-12-24|Wanley reported in 1700]] that Elstob had been weighing and describing ‘the old Roman weights,’ the large Roman bronze pieces which we now recognise as the heavy cast bronze pieces of aes grave, made in the third century BC. The list has survived, and is entitled ‘An account of y<sup>e</sup> examination that was made of the several Roman weights that are to be met w<sup>th</sup>in the Cabinets belonging to y<sup>e</sup> Bodleian Library Among Archbishop Lauds Roman Families.’ At the end of the list, it is stated that ‘This examination was made December 23rd 1700 by ...’ and then signed in a different hand and ink ‘Humfrey Wanley.’ Berry and Kim acutely observed that it had previously been signed by William Elstob, to whom Wanley had entrusted the work, but whom he had deprived of the credit by erasing his name.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1248)
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