'I have got some small Addition to my Coyns since ye was here. A Gold Nero weighing an Unce and a drop, ane other Gold Nero ploughed up in the south of Scotland weighing near 4 drop a dozen Roman pieces six Silver and six Copper from Dr Richardson in Yorkshire with a small Boxe of Fossils, three Roman denarij found near Dundee,18 some brasse pieces of Antoninus pius, Alexander Severus, and Gordianus pius from a friend lately returned from his travels and I expect thirty six pieces more with a ship waiting a fair wind from London.'
(NLS, Wodrow Letters Qu. II, f.76 (Letter 54); Burnett 2020b, pp. 1548, 800)