'A catalogue of Archbishop Sharp’s Roman coins, written by Archbishop Sharp, with some addenda by himself, and also a few more by his younger son, Thomas Sharp.
The outer cover is annotated:
'My Fathers Account of his Roman Coins / The above in the Hand writing of Dr Thos Sharp. / The Book itself is the writing of his father ArchBishop Sharp / Cath: Sharp'
The volume consists of 79 pages of descriptions, with some references to Occo. The coins are all of silver or bronze, apart from four gold. Including the various addenda:
- 61 Roman Republic
- 207 Pompey to Domitian
- 204 Second century
- 307 Third Century
- 174 Fourth Century
- 11 Byzantine
- 964 [Total]
Most of the emperors are represented, including the rarer ones like Pecennius Niger or Aemilian, and there is a specimen of the very rare Brutus EID MAR (if genuine). The four gold coins were all still present in 1963 (see D3549/6/5/14). Three were of Gordian III, Eugenius and Honorius, and a fourth, of Augustus, was added later, probably by Thomas Sharp, who says that it was ‘given me by ye Dean found at Kirkham(?)’. There were also a few Roman provincial coins and some coins which we can today recognise as false: two bronzes of Julius Caesar; and two bronzes of Otho. There were several coins of the British usurpers, eight of Carausius and three of Allectus, probably of British origin, and the mint marks on the late Roman coins also suggest a predominantly British origin.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1502)
