Engravings of English coins
Reference code
MSS/0053
Title
Engravings of English coins
Date
early 18th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. i + 33.
Octavo.
Leather binding, brown.
Octavo.
Leather binding, brown.
Scope and content
Engravings (40) of English coins made from plates preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with manuscript annotations by Martin Folkes, PSA (d. 1754). The coins are mainly Qu Eliz.-Commonwealth, latest date given 1650. Some mistakes in the engravings are noted in the commentary.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/53
Archival history
Purchased for SA by Dr Andrew Gifford, FSA, from the sale of Dr Richard Mead's collection, Jan. 1755.
Related units of description
Minute Book VII, 16,23 Jan.1755, fol.172r,v.