'The golden Trajan weighs exactly a Louis d’ore, is somewhat blemished, wanting a litle bit on the edge, so that I think a guinea may serve for’ the price. I have layed out the money for theses Scotch coyns following, which are not in your list and I met with yesterday by good happ, viz. a crown piece of Queen Marie, a fourty pence piece of the same, a fourty pence of Marie and Henry, a twenty pence piece of the same, a fourty pence of James the sixt with the crown upon the point of the sword, a fourty and five pence piece of James the sixt, a fifeteen pence of the same. They cost in all one and twenty shillings and eight pence, and are put up apart in papers marked, as also the duplicats I could supply you with, of John, King of England, and Edward Longshanks. I have likewise sent the medals of Q. Anne and Charles the 2nd's Coronation-piece at Scoon, both which I procured with great difficulty. All are pack’t in a box directed for you, together with all the Scotch duplicats I sent you the list of a long time ago, put up likewise in numbered papers, and in the upper part of the box above the coyns ane elf-arrow and 3 barnacles all marked in papers apart. ... Buy Saxon or Roman silver or brasse medals that are well preserved for me at the same rate ye use to give for yourself... [Thoresby 1912, p. 100 n. 2: "The remainder of the letter principally relates to Mr Sutherland’s possessions and requirements in the way of coins – not much of general interest."]' (Thoresby 1912, pp. 99-100; Burnett 2020b, p. 1544)
