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Letter, 'Of an inedited Greek coin [colony]' from John Swinton to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/4/302

Date: 07 December 1765

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of an inedited coin of the Empress Crispina. In a letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Member of the Academy degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany'

Read 13 February 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/302
Earliest possible date
07 December 1765
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Swinton

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John Swinton, Letter, 'Of an inedited Greek coin [colony]' from John Swinton to Thomas Birch, 07 December 1765, L&P/4/302, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_302/letter-of-an-inedited-greek-coin-colony-from-john-swinton-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 19 April 2025

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