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Letter, 'Of two Parthian coins' from John Swinton to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/4/354

Date: 20 June 1766

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of two Parthian coins, never hitherto published. By 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, in a letter to Charles Morton, M.D. Sec. R. S'

Read 18 December 1766

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L&P/4/354
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20 June 1766
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Swinton

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John Swinton, Letter, 'Of two Parthian coins' from John Swinton to James Douglas, 20 June 1766, L&P/4/354, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_354/letter-of-two-parthian-coins-from-john-swinton-to-james-douglas, accessed on 19 May 2025

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