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Numismatics

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Box 10, CR. [Roman Coin Issues]

Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS/2/10
Scope and Contents

All sldies are labeleld simply with the alphabetical code 'CR. Most slides also have a description handwritten on the label alog the top edge of the slide. The theme is 'Roman Coin Issues'.

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Catalogue of Ancient British Coins

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6091
Scope and Contents

'Catalogue of the Ancient British coins found at East Wittering Sussex in 1875-6', 76 folios. There is a separate page for each type of coin, with an illustration, description and details of individual specimens. Attached to fo. 2 is a letter to F.J.H. Jenkinson, 2 April [1918], from Mrs Margaret L. Reid, whose father, Henry Willett, found most of the coins.

Dates: 1877-1918
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Catalogue of Roman coins, Undated

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.05
Scope and Contents

A descriptive catalogue of coins of the Roman empire.

Dates: Undated
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Crawford: Papers of Michael Hewson Crawford (1939-), ancient historian and numismatist, regarding 'Imagines Italicae' Papers: Italic inscriptions, numismatics and epigraphy of the ancient Mediterranean

Reference Code: GBR/3437/CRFD
Scope and Contents These working papers pertain to research and correspondence undertaken by Professor Michael H. Crawford as principal editor of Imagines Italicae: A Corpus of Italic Inscriptions (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 110). London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 2011. This is a three volume catalogue, and associated database, of inscriptions in early Latin, Umbrian and Oscan, created under the aegis of University College...
Dates: 2000-2016
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Ezechiel Spanheim: Numismata Imperatoria

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5976
Scope and Contents

52 folios: (p. vii) E. Spanheim, 'Numismata imperatoria secundum varios Raritatis Gradus', in Latin; (p. 32) Roger Gale, 'Essay towards the Recovery of the Courses of the four great Roman Ways', in English. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, Bart.

Dates: 1710 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Notebook 4 (Notes on Hellenistic coinage), 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/3
Scope and Contents Notes on Hellenistic coinage, arranged by ruler or region. Includes notes on the stylistic progression of the imagery on the coins as well as descriptions of the coin types. 3 inserts: 1 leaf of rough notes on coin styles arranged in chronological order, 1 leaf of Wace's own aide-memoire timeline of Hellenistic rulers in Egypt, Syria, Thrace and Pergamon and Macedonia, 1printed leaf of a series of Hellenistic coin images The notebook is undated, presumed to follow Notebook 3 as...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
 Series

"Sur la Cubature du Coin Spherique" par M. de Lagny, c 1722

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3971.3: 67-76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.

Dates: c 1722
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
 Fonds

Treatise on coins, Mid sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.22
Scope and Contents

A treatise on the coins of England and Ireland, and of foreign states, that are current in England, with coloured drawings of them. It was written after the year 1526, as appears from a reference to that year on f. 17, and contains a petition to the king to be allowed to coin in Ireland, and the other isles out of England, in gold and silver, and offers an annual payment of 8,000 francs for the permission. It also recommends a lowering of the standard.

Dates: Mid sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).