Thomas Hearne - 1729-04-09
Thomas Hearne, 1729/04/09
Thomas Hearne - 1729-04-09
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14278 |
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| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Thomas Hearne |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | George Ballard, Montagu Venables-Bertie |
| Publication dateDate when the publication was issued: day - month - year . | April 9, 1729 |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Clodius Albinus , Philip The Arab, Coin Price , Local Finds , Otho |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Hearne 1885, vol. 10 p. 117Hearne 1885, Burnett 2020b, p. 1309Burnett 2020b |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'Yesterday, Mr Ballard, the taylor of Campden in Gloucestershire, called upon me, and shewed me several old Coins of very good value that he had picked up, one of wch was a copper one of Albinus of the bigger size, a bigger one in copper of Philip the elder, for wch he said he gave five shillings, & he said both of them were found at Cirencester, besides many others. He said he had got a silver Otho for wch a Gentleman had offered him 5 libs, but yet he said ’twas dubious. I have a silver one myself. Silver ones are rare, but ’tis the Copper ones that are of that great scarceness, as I can not ever pretend to have seen a genuine one, that of the Earl of Abington’s (wch I formely saw in Dr Stratfords’s hands being to me suspectae fidei. ... This Ballard does little or nothing about his Trade, but rambles about after Coins & endeavours to make a perfect series of the Roman ones. He lives chiefly upon his mother....'
(Hearne 1885, vol. 10 p. 117; Burnett 2020b, p. 1309)
