Francis Wise - Roger Gale - 1731-09-03

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Francis Wise

Francis Wise - Roger Gale - 1731-09-03
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AuthorAuthor of the document. Francis Wise
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Roger Gale
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . September 3, 1731
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. Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 294-51, Burnett 2020b, pp. 444-5 n. 5242
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Greek , Legends , Book Production
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
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'I beg leave once more to give you the trouble of a query upon an odd coin that was lately put into my hands, and which, I believe, will afford matter of speculation to the learned. It is an ancient Greek coin, perhaps seventeen or eighteen hundred years old, as near as I can guess from the fabrick of it.
The letters were not so fair as could be wished; but I can read it no otherwise (and I have viewed it in all lights) than ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΧΟΣΓΙΔΟΡΟΥ, a name that, I believe, is not to be met with in any author, Greek or Latin. I once imagined it might be the Persian word Chosroes, which is fometimes wrote Chosdroes, made Greek, and, I believe, a king of that name is found as high as Trajan's time. The monogram of Paros, or any other place, or the coat-armour, as it seems, on the reverse, give me no manner of light into the affair.
I wish you could recollect, whether you had ever seen any such coin in any cabinet, or whether any author has given one like it? for I would, if possible, get some satisctation in the point. In the mean time, I beg that you would not communicate a copy of this draught to any one; for, beside that it is very rudely done, I am willing that it should first be made public in my own book, which is now in the press.'

(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 294-5; Burnett 2020b, pp. 444-5 n. 524)

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.