John Purnell - Hans Sloane - 1735-05-02

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John Purnell - Hans Sloane - 1735-05-02

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	16044
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, British Library
InventoryInventory number.	Sloane MS 4054, ff.82-5
AuthorAuthor of the document.	John Purnell
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Hans Sloane
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	May 2, 1735
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	London ^{51° 30' 26.80" N, 0° 7' 39.96" W}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Edmund Chishull, Antonio Picenini
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, p. 6251
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Aleppo , Collection Sale , Antioch , Catalogue
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'...according to my promise yesterday I send you a List of my Medalls as I took them Some Time agoe, in the Same Bags & Papers, as you saw Them, & as I received Them from the Revd Doct^r Chishull Deceased & His Execut^r Mr Dunster.'

The list is attached, entitled:

'London 2 May 1735. A Particular Account of Some part of my Medalls, as sorted & Numbred, by the Revd Doct^r Chishull & Doct^r Picinini Deceased, as I brought Them from Smyrna. The Rest which I collected at Aleppo, & Antioch, are not sorted but Remain in severall loose Papers as noted In The following Catalogue.' (London, British Library, Sloane MS 4054, ff.82-5)

The list gives a summary list of coins which were in four bags. The contents of the two bags of ‘Orange Color Buckram’ look like the coins collected in Aleppo and Antioch, and of the other two of ‘Canvas’ the coins from Asia Minor. The list of the first bag has 72 items individually noted, identified briefly by emperor or sometimes by city; and gives some totals for groups of coins each contained ‘in another paper not sorted’, before giving the bag’s total: ‘the foregoing Medalls being In Number 219:220 in The Orange Color Buckram Bag No 1’. The second bag (also ‘of orange buckram’) has a total given of 441, which is made up of four groups ‘in a paper not sorted’, inlcuding the enigmatic ‘245 D^o Loose in This Bag, being Ordinary Modern Greek Medalls, of small Valew or Estmation.’ The third (canvas) bag itemises 67 pieces, and the fourth has a total of 347 items, including 89 ‘not sorted’ and includes the ‘Petrified Mushroom very perfect & intire’, before making a list of now empty papers from which the coins must have ‘slipped out’. So in all we have about 660 coins probably from Aleppo and Antioch, and a further 414 probably from Chishull’s Smyrna collection. (Burnett 2020b, p. 625)

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.