'The lists seem to have been intended to serve as a catalogue for Courten so that he would not procure any duplicates for Mr Bohun. Although the interpretation of the lists is not straightforward or clear, the most extensive one (ff. 210r–v) lists out some 260 coins divided between ten ‘Dr.’ = drawers. The drawers contained:
1–2 ‘containeth imperial and consular medals’, listed out by emperor or family, the majority being imperial (40 in the first drawer, and another 32 in the second)
3–4 ‘empty’
5 ‘18 Greek medals, 2 shekells of Samaria & 1 consular medl,’ marked ‘true’ or ‘false,’ the latter category outnumbering the first
6 ‘containeth money of grand Cairo & ye coast of Africa 15 grt peeces 85 small’
7 ‘containeth 18 Large silver medals Greek & Latin 1 modern. Nearly all are Roman and marked false’
8 ‘containeth 27 Coines & Medals modern except 2 one of which is Greek ye other Latine,’ some marked ‘false’
9 ‘money most of it Spanish 4 cast modern medalles & 1 false consular ps,’ not listed
10 ‘consulary medls 67,’ not listed
11 ‘consulary medls 66,’ not listed
12 ‘empty’
(Burnett 2020b, p. 1217)
