John Sharp - Ralph Thoresby - 1701-02-15

John Sharp I, Bishopthorpe

John Sharp - Ralph Thoresby - 1701-02-15

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14492
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	John Sharp I
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Ralph Thoresby
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	February 15, 1701
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Bishopthorpe ^{53° 55' 21.11" N, 1° 5' 45.71" W}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Charles du Fresne, James Sutherland, Richard Richardson
LiteratureReference to literature.	Fresne 16781, Thoresby 1912, pp. 95-62, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1543, 867 n. 147, 892 n. 763
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Scottish , Saxon , Coin Collection , Byzantine , Silver
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ	https://archive.org/details/thoresby005/page/94/mode/2up

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'I herewith return you Mr. Sutherland’s letter, which indeed I intended to send by this post tho’ you had not writ to Mr. Richardson. I see my collection of Scots coyns is very imperfect, but so is it also as to Saxon and others. I mean to leave your 5 pieces which you sent by Mr. Killingbeck with Mr. Derring who stays at Bishopthorp during my absence at London. He shall send them to you by the first opportunity. I have not had so much time to spare as to look nicely into Du Fresne’s book of the coyns of the Greek Emperors, in order to the finding out to which of them these do belong. The largest and the tamest of them I take-to be Heraclius his. The rest I will not so much as guess at, tho’ I find such sort of reverses frequently in the book I now named. The silver coyn I know not what to make of.'

(Thoresby 1912, pp. 95-6; Burnett 2020b, p. 1543)

References

^ Fresne, Charles du (1678), "De imperatorum Constantinopolitanorum seu de inferioris aevi, vel imperii, uti vocant, numismatibus dissertatio", in Charles du Fresne, Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinatis, III, Paris.
^ Thoresby, Ralph (1912), Letters adressed to Ralph Thoresby, Thoresby Society Publ. 21, Leeds.
^ 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.