Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17

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Thomas Owen, Aleppo

Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1715/16-01-17

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	15857
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, Royal Society
InventoryInventory number.	MS 254/413
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Thomas Owen
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	William Sherard
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	January 17, 1716
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Aleppo 36° 11' 57.26" N, 37° 9' 49.41" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Jean Foy-Vaillant, Paul Lucas, William Fawkener, William Crosse
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, pp. 580, 619-201
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Pescennius Niger , Aleppo , Local Finds , Silver , Commission , Catalogue , Roman , Roman Imperial , Later Roman Empire, Philip The Arab, Duplicates , Volusianus , Nerva , Commodus
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'This returns you my hearty thanks for y^r obliging lines by Mons^r Paul Lucas, who arrived here the 8^th, & has since made me several Visits. I gave him a sight of y^os medals, w^ch I sent the Catalogue of; & on his recommendatⁿ, made a purchase of ’em for myself, paying somew^t more yⁿ a hundred dollars; & if M^r Cross is disposed to purchase them, I shall insist on 200. For, though they may not be worth to you above 30 to 40, as having much the greatest p^rt of them already; yet to a novice, such I esteem Mr Cross & myself, they make a fine shew, & will find Employm^t for some time. I heartily wish, I had not desird you to forward the Catalogue; since It may prevent my obliging you w^th some particular medals you seem to desire of that parcel, which I am very ready to Do, & would be content wth the rest. In my last, X^ber 1^st, if I mistake not, I mentiond a parcel brought to me, containing some 1000s of the L. Empire, w^ch at first I scornd & dismissd; but some days after resolvd on a regular Collectn of the L. Emp. wth different Reverses, & of different sizes; y^rfore bargaind to pick as many as I pleasd at 100 p’ dollar, & culld 600, the most Legible, These I likewise presented to Mons^r Paul, who disdaind to Examine them; but (to my extraordinary good fortune) Coming 2 or 3 days after into my Chamber, & spying a handful of the obscurest, w^ch had puzzld me, lyeing in the window, he wantonly takes up one of them, & poring sometime over It wth his Glass, & comparing It with Vaillant, he fell a stamping, & into a profound Exstasy, affirming It was a Pescennius Niger; & indeed It has a perfect Resemblance w^th that; & he solemnly protests, the K. of France gave 500 dollars for a silver one of the same size. What credit is to be given him, I know not; but I keep the medal close, till I can have y^r opinion, & will not part wth It, but by y^r advice, & Consent. He pretends likewise to have found out another great Curiosity among several of Philip. Sen. w^ch I left out of that parcel I begd y^r Acceptance of, being Duplicates; The head is Philippus, the Reverse common (an Eagle) & of a base Alloy. But by look^g on it, he presently discovered the names of 3 Emperors, & indeed I can read (tho in bad characters) ___ ΓΑ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥϹ . . ΟΥΟΛΟΥϹϹΙΑΝΟϹ ___ Among the 600 he has likewise found L. Aelius C. very small Nerva w^th his wife (w^thout letters) pvae. ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ. min. & some others I forget whom.

RemarksRemarks regarding the annotation. (en)

The coin that Lucas mentions as having been bought by the King of France is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, AA.GR.654. (en)