Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13

Samuel Woodforde, Oxford

Samuel Woodforde - Edward Bernard 1695-07-13

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14001
InstitutionName of Institution.	Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number.	MS Smith 45, ff.199-200
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Samuel Woodforde
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Edward Bernard
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	July 13, 1695
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Oxford ^{51° 45' 7.24" N, 1° 15' 28.26" W}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, p. 12131
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Local Finds , Constantius Chlorus , Gratianus , Constantinus , Valens , Valentinianus , Labarum , Roma , Securitas , Romulus , Celtic , Victoria
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence
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Since my coming here I have bought a purchase of Roman coyns Copper turnd up by a Plough about a mile or two hence, I cannot yet certainly learn ye place wch I disir to see but am inquiring after it, they were found in an Urn or Earthen pott, about 9^li weight of them wherof I have 4 or 5^li or more as many as cost me an Angel. Some I have will favour cleansd (for I know not ye disird way how to do it, it may bee you may \and if you do tell me/ & they are of these sorts Constantius, \Constantinus/, Gratianus, Valens & the son(?) Valentinianus. They DN VALENS & P F AVG & on ye reverse of some a Victoria Alata, on others A Roman soldier drawing some Enemy by the hair wch on the reverse Gloria Romanorum \A bird on a Globe, or rock, a Romany Pal/// Gloria Novi Saeculi/. On others other figures A Roman \Armd/ particularly with his spear striking down an enemy on Horseback, & overturning both, with this inscription Fel Temp Reparatio. On others with divers figures \an(?)/ single \///// double Secuitas Reipublicae, felicitas Reipub: Virtus exercitus \Gloria or Feleicitas Novi Saeculi/. In very many is the Labarum Xrianu’ [drawing of christogram], most of them very playn. If my father thinks they are of any value or rarity I will willingly transit to you, for I have scores of some, & of others fewer. In severall of Gratians on ye reverse is a wreath of Laurea // VOY X MVLT XX with the places at ye bottom wher Coynd. \Some have also at ye bottom S LO/ S.Const, S.Rom. One of them with Caput Galeatu’ & Roma inscribed on one side, on ye other Lupus Romanus wth Romulus & Remus sucking \two ////s/. Then on about 3 or 4 //// wch are not yet cleansd, & what they are I know not, but suppose about ye same time & age in ye Description of ye Roman Empire – here in Britayn, & when they were scampering hence; I might bee able to say more had I seen ye place where they were turned up, or ye pott in wch they were found. When I was a boy at Oxon, I was much acquainted with these matters, but now without books of Medayls ritayn only some little yt I have not forgott quite. If they be worth nothing, the very copper will pay for the purchase. Most of these wch I have cleansd are very legible. Such things as ///// //////, if they profitt not, & when are old we begin to be boys again. * [an extended note on his text] possibly Signata Londiny; \& most of/them have on the Forside DN CONSTANTIVS P F AVG. On the reverse as I sd A Roman souldier armd striking down a Briton on horseback who \with his horse tumbling/ stretches out his hand to him, The inscription is FEL TEMP REPARATIO & at ye bottom P S LON forte pecunia Signata Londini as I sd Many peices have a victoria alata in diverse forms, & Roman soldiers \in divers postins(?) & habits & Aray/ with two or three Ensigns, between them, & severall other varietys. Some have in ye midst of ye reverse, on one side of ye Victory \the two letters or Cypher/ OF (wch what it stands for I know not) & over agt it on the other side in some I: in others II: in others III signifying I think years of coyning or of Actio or some such thing. I have lost 2 out of my pocket, shewing ym at Winton, wch I judg’d to be British peices taken up wth ye rest such odd kinds of head as you have in ye British Coyns of ye near Cambden, & on the reverse of one just such a chariot such(?) as is yr noted. What I may have in ye uncleansd peices, I know not. (Burnett 2020b, p. 1213)

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.