'There is a strange and undated list of ‘ye following Medalls in Esteeme,’ which were ‘Rece’ed from ‘Docter Trumbull’. It is written on the back of a letter addressed to ‘Mrs Heath: Akehurst at her house in Letherhead Surrey,’ but that does not mean that it was she who made the list, as it may just be a piece of reused paper. However, Alexander Akehurst is known as the person who rebuilt Emlyn House or The Mansion, Leatherhead Church Street, now Leatherhead Register Office. But no collector of that name is attested.
The list consists of two parts, written in different hands and both undated. The first is written in a rather childish looking hand. It uses childish language and makes many mistakes, e.g., the conflation of Olybrius and Glycerius (‘Olicerius’):
[f.54v] Rec’ed from Docter Trumbull ye following Medalls in Esteeme
The most rare
Julius Caesar ... in gold
Augustus) in Copper Large for ye small are Common
Tiberius )
Brittanicus
Otho ... in Copper
Pertinax
Didius Iulianus
Percennius [sic] Niger is ye most rare after Otho in Copper
Gordianus
Herrennius Etruscus – in Gold
Hostilianus
Aemilianus
Soloninus [sic] Gallienus
Quintillus
Saturninus
Firmius
Dioclesian [sic] – in Gold & in Copper
Valerius Maximianus in gold and in Copper large
Valerius Severus
Martinianus
Crispus Large in Copper
Delmatius
Nepotianus
Nigrinianus
Julian ye Apostate in Copper Large
Martianus
Petronius max:
Mecilius Avitus
[f.55r] Leo
Majorianus
Libius Severus
Anthemius
Olicerius
Iulius Nepos
Basiliscus
Romolus [sic] Aug
Zeno in Copper
Tiberius Mauritius
Tiberius Constantinus in Silver
Leontia
Heraclitus [sic]
More common
[in three columns; col. 1:]
Claudius
Nero
Vespatian
Titus
Domitian
Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Faustina
Valentinianus
Honorius
[col. 2:] Lucius Verus
Antonius
Marcus Aurelius
Commodus
Septimius Severus
Iulia Domna
Antonius Caracalla
Geta
Antonius Heliogab
Theodosius
Iustinianus
[col. 3:] Iulia Mamea
Maximin
Gordian Iunr
Philip Father & Son
Trajanus Decius
Trebonianus Gallus
Volusianus if not in gold
Flavius val: Constantius
Constantinus
Arcadius
The Most Rare of Greeke Medalls
[in four columns; col. 1:] Amintas
Antipater
Pharnaces
Gelon
[col. 2:] Cleopatra
Cassander
Attalus
[col. 3: Ptolomies yt have the Sr name
Trophon
Eumenes
[col. 4:] Bachides
Phileterus
The other greeke princes are Common
[f.55v]
Note that ye Medals of the Roman Emprs in Greeke of silver are rare
Of the Grecian Princes those in Copper are more rare then those of silver and gold
On the contrary, those of the greeke Cities in Copper are more Common.
There are Consular Medals wch are all of the Roman Families of these it is dificult to know ye good.
The Medalls that are not exprest here are rather good than bad.
There are none so common but they become rare of they are of an Extraordinary size and very faire & have a head of each side or have a good reverse or above all if ye Reverse be onley an Inscription.
This summary is followed by a more detailed list in another hand (ff.56–63), which gives full descriptions of 130 large bronzes (mostly AE1, some AE2) from Julius Caesar to Postumus, with references to Oiselius 1677, Occo 1684, and Vaillant 1694, thus establishing a terminus post quem. But the coins in the second list do not coincide with those in the first (e.g., no Britannicus or Pescennius Niger), so it may be unrelated: perhaps each one was taken from a separate volume of the catalogue described above? Some are marked FALS or DUB, and with B, R, RR or C, and there are various numbers from (1) to (11) which look like tray numbers.
The list looks as if it were made by the person who bought the collection, but his or her identity is unclear, as is the subsequent fate of the coins.'
(Burnett 2020b, pp. 1550-1)
