John Conduitt - Hans Sloane 1716-06-17

John Conduitt

John Conduitt - Hans Sloane 1716-06-17

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14059
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, British Library
InventoryInventory number.	Sloane MS 4044, ff.183-4
AuthorAuthor of the document.	John Conduitt
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Hans Sloane
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	June 17, 1716
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, p. 1274 n. 9421
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Roman , Inscriptions , Otho , Augustus , Julius Caesar , Triumviri Monetales , Local Finds
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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'I have pick’d up between six & seven hundred medals, & procur’d some Roman inscriptions on marble. A great many of the medals are coarse & few of them are so beautiful as those I saw in Italy. I here enclose the copy of one w’ch by the letters on the reverse I took att first to be an Otho, but am afraid it is ane Augustus, & that those letters relate to M. Salvius Otho Grandfather to the Emperor of that name who is mention’d in Suetonius & I presume was one of the Triumviri Monetales who during the reigns of Julius Cæsar & Augustus had their names stampt on the reverse of the coins of their Emperours. I have bought the greatest part of my medals in parcells, some I have met with amongst the brass mony that is current here, I have near a hundred that were found by plowmen about a league from hence amongst some ruins, wc’h, by the inscriptions on the medals found there, & several other concurring circumstances, I take to be the remains of the famous Carteia….' (BL Sloane MS 4044, ff.183-4; Burnett 2020b, p. 1274 n. 942)

References

^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.