Thomas Tanner - Matthew Postlethwayte - 1727-10-07

Thomas Tanner

Thomas Tanner - Matthew Postlethwayte - 1727-10-07

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	16173
InstitutionName of Institution.	Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
InventoryInventory number.	MS 587, f.247
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Thomas Tanner
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Matthew Postlethwayte
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	October 7, 1727
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature.	Sommerlad 1962, pp. 336-7 n. 41, Burnett 2020b, pp. 734-52
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	English , Gold , Silver , Goldsmiths , Melting Down
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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'I don’t know whether I have not formerly desired you among other Friends, to gratify my Curiosity w^th any pieces of old Gold or Silver English Coins. Now and then such things are to be met w^th in some Families, where good people have made little purses of old pennies and odd pieces of Gold & Silver money, w^ch are often carried to the Goldsmiths, sold for weight & melted down, so that if you can rescue any such I would give a better price, than the Goldsmiths will if the owners have a mind to part w^th them; if they have no mind to part w^th them, and they are Curious pieces I should be glad of a sight of them by any safe Conveyance. Such Gold coins as I mean, are such as were of the Reigns before K. James I., and silver ones broad and fair any before the Restoration of K. Ch. II., the Common Coins since those two Epocha’s I have I believe pretty compleat. I have given away my Roman Coins, nor care for any forreign ones but only such of our own nation since the Conquest.' (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 587, f.247; Sommerlad 1962, pp. 336-7 n. 4; Burnett 2020b, pp. 734-5)

References

^ Sommerlad, M. (1962) The historical and antiquarian interests of Thomas Tanner, 1674-1735, Bishop of St. Asaph, DPhil thesis, University of Oxford.
^ 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.