William Crosse - William Sherard - 1715-08-20

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William Crosse, Belgrade (Istanbul)

William Crosse - William Sherard - 1715-08-20

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	14417
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, Royal Society
InventoryInventory number.	MS 252/113
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Crosse
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	William Sherard
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	August 20, 1715
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Belgrade (Istanbul) 41° 4' 35.76" N, 29° 3' 9.00" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Jean Foy-Vaillant, Paul Lucas
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, pp. 1520, 568, 570 n. 27, 620 n. 425, 6211
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Catalogue , Cleaning , Rarity , Duplicates , Byzantium , Julia Domna , Silver , Plague , Elagabalus
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'Belgrade, 20^th Aug^t 1715
Hon^rd S^r
Tis owing to divers Interruptions y^t I have not before this time returned my Thanks for y^e very acceptable Favour of yo^r Letter & y^e Catalogue of Medals. I had not presumd to have given you so much Trouble had not my Bro^r Lisle assurd me of yo^r Candour & Condescension towards a young Beginner in this Science. Yo^r kind Reproof for my Diligence in order to become a Neat Medallist, could not have been bestowd upon a Man y^t will improve better under it, tho’ I must assure you, for my own Justification, y^t I never cleansd a Medal to add to its Splendour, but only to discover inscriptions: and those I sent you were y^e most blind, & to me unintelligible, so I must assure you y^t others w^ch are less to have not undergone y^t discipline of y^e Brush. and if y^e Vernice be all y^t is valuable in an Ancient Medal, I confess I am not proficient enough to comprehend it. You are pleasd to observe y^t some in y^e Catalogue are rare; & several very good, but not having set any Marks to distinguish ’em, I am ignorant of y^e difference. We have no book here save Vaillant & his design seems to have been only to collect y^e very Choicest. As for yor kind Proposition to assist me wth any of y^e Duplicates, my Stock is so slender as yet y^t I can’t make you any return \worth speaking of/. What I have of this kind you shall have an Acco^t of & they are at yo^r Co’mand. Of ΒΥΖΑΣ I have seen 2 sorts one in y^e hands of y^e Embas^r y^e other is my own, but never met wth a Duplicate of either; if any such comes my way I shall be mindful of yo^r Order. The Medal of Julia Domna wch you desire I send you enclosd & hope it will answer yo^r Purpose.
I am very glad to hear y^t this Place is so fruitful in thy sort of Co’modity as you have found by Experience, altho’ we have a different Notion of this Matter. The chief of w^t I have picked up has been amongst Friends and to say the Truth little has offerd to sale since I have been here \except ye small silver w^ch are of little value/ but in Future I shall look more diligently. Mons^r Paul Luca clears this Town of all y^ts good, & (if co’mon Fame does not injure him) leaves a great deal of Mad(?) in it’s Room. But I am sensible I must tire you to talk about a Thing I understand so little & you so well. --- We are grievously out of Humour with y^e Venet’ for their late Conduct for w^ch no mortal knows how to account. We have no fresh advises for y^e Camp. Great Numbers of y^e Asiatick Troops pass by us in y^r Return home. The great Comfort of y^e War to me y^t am unconcernd, is, y^t we have y^e Liberty of y^e Villages, & know nothing of y^e Plague, w^ch we impute to y^e Rabble being abroad. I entreat you, Sr, to forgive y^e boldness wth wch I intrude upon you in this Matter of y^e Coyns. You cannot assist a Man y^t has \a/ greater sense of your Goodness, or a greater Honor for such a Teacher, y^r
Worthy Sr
Yor most obliged faithful & devoted Ser^t W Crosse

[Annotations by Sherard]
With y^e Medal of Julia Domna, I make bold to send other 3, bec. I can’t decipher ’em & in one especially I apprehend something worth poring upon. That w^ch I mean bears 2 small heads on y^e Reverse & I would fain have this to be coynd in Honor of Caius & Lucius y^e Sons of Agrippa who were saluted Principes Iuvent. I read CAII but afterward comes –ΜΙΤΑΝ w^ch I can’t reconcile.
A 2d, I think, is pretty plainly y^e Head of ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝ y^e Reverse 3 urns containing olive branches, but y^e other to my unexperienced Eyes are not discoverable.
The 3d I take to be y^e Head of Elagabalus but I am at a loss agen for y^e Inscription.
To y^e Worshipful
W^m Sherard Esq^r Consul
for y^e British Nation at
Smirna
R Sept 6 1715
ANSw Oct 131'

(Royal Society, MS 252/113; Burnett 2020b, p. 1520)