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Subject: Who was the FIRST documented coin collector????
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Snelling??? Probably not. This guy is pretty close??? Probably not.
Sure it was probably ancient coins. 16th century??? I can't remember
when the first numismatic book was written. It was recently about
five years ago in a Kolbe auction. I am certain it was in the 1500's.
HILL (Abraham)
Familiar Letters which passed between Abraham Hill, Esq., Fellow
and Treasurer of the Royal Society, one of the Lords of Trade, and
Comptroller to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; and several
eminent and ingenious Persons of the Last Century. Transcribed from
the Original Letters [by Thomas Astle, the eighteenth-century
antiquarian and archivist].
London: Printed for W. Johnston, 1767. First Edition, half-title,
[4], xxxii, 241, [1] pp., cont. calf, hinges partly cracked, spine
gilt, label. A selection of seventy letters written in the late
seventeenth century, now published for the first time from the
original manuscripts, which were in the possession of the editor,
Thomas Astle. Among those writing to the Treasurer of the Royal
Society are Edmund Halley, anxious about the election for the
professorship of astronomy at Oxford; Isaac Barrow, writing from
Constantinople about the progress of his coin-collecting (Hill was
also an ardent coin collector); the Catholic poet James Alban Gibbes,
the astronomer Walter Pope, and Dr. William Aglionby, all sending
observations from their travels in Italy; and Mr. John Newman,
describing his voyage from Cyprus to Scanderoon and an eclipse of the
moon at Aleppo. Other topics - antiquarian, cultural, military,
political, and scientific - the conduct of naval skirmishes with the
Dutch, the Swedes and the Danes, the plans for Wren's Sheldonian
Theatre at Oxford, and the trials of William Petty's double-hulled
ship. Bookseller Inventory #14806
Price: US$ 681.66 (Convert Currency)
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