Thomas Routh - Roger Gale - 1743-04-03

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Thomas Routh, Carlisle

Thomas Routh - Roger Gale - 1743-04-03
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  14271
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document. Thomas Routh
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Roger Gale
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . April 3, 1743
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Carlisle 54° 53' 41.45" N, 2° 56' 10.43" W
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 446-71, Burnett 2020b, p. 1307 n. 13572
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Local Finds , Trajan , Aurei , Nero
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'Last week ... there was found a Roman fibula and a medal ... The head on the medal is of Trajan, the letters round it ......IANO AVG ... P M and others defaced; on the reverse is the Emperor seated on a pile of arms with a trophy erected before him, the legible letters being SPQR OPTI in the exergue S C... A gold coin of Nero found about two years ago at Elenborough, on the sea shore withinn flood mark, bears Nero’s head, with NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS about it; the reverse is the Emperor and an Empress, with the inscription AVGVSTVS & AVGVSTA'

(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 446-7; Burnett 2020b, p. 1307 n. 1357)

References

  1. ^  Nichols, John (ed.), Reliquiae Galeanae, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica II.1 (London, 1781), II.2 (London, 1781), III (London, 1790).
  2. ^  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.