Note, regarding coins found in Scotland by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/16/32
Date: 1699
Description
The note explains that James Sutherland, 'master of the physick garden at Edinburgh', has had some figures of coins printed though he has not yet published them, and that Robert Brock, a goldsmith in Glasgow, 'will give their note to restore them to their owners upon demand, after they are coppied.' The note is bordered by figures of a Roman and a Saxon coin, and gold and silver Scottish coins. The lower border of the note shows the inscription and size of a ring found in Scotland.
Subject: Numismatics
Read at Gresham College on 22 June 1699
- Reference number
- CLP/16/32
- Earliest possible date
- 1699
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Engraving
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Note, regarding coins found in Scotland by unknown author, 1699, CLP/16/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_16_32/note-regarding-coins-found-in-scotland-by-unknown-author, accessed on 10 October 2026
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Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'
1660-1739 Reference number: CLP/16
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