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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks upon a denarius of the Veturian family, with an Etruscan inscription on the reverse, never before published. In a letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Custos archivorum of the University of Oxford, member of the academy degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan academy of Cortona in Tuscany'

Read 22 December 1768

Reference number
L&P/5/52
Earliest possible date
05 September 1768
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of an Etruscan coin of Paestum; of a denarius of the Veturian family' from John Swinton, 05 September 1768, L&P/5/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_52/letter-of-an-etruscan-coin-of-paestum-of-a-denarius-of-the-veturian-family-from-john-swinton, accessed on 10 December 2024

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