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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 7844112, member: 93416&quot;]Hello Anthony</p><p><br /></p><p>Many thanks indeed! Since this account comes 200 years after the event, I shall allow myself to read a little between the lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>The key comment on the Chas I coin collection seems to me the statement that “the medals have been taken away and purloin’d by the thousands, and irrecoverable”</p><p><br /></p><p>That seem to concern 80,000+ coins – perhaps all sold off by the sort of Taliban/Puritans that surrounded Cromwell. The coins lost in the fire of c. 1697 seem to be a second Royal collection (?).</p><p><br /></p><p>So – if the coin in question still exists – maybe the Hermitage is the place to look?</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to this I had assumed the earliest “oriental coin collection” in England would be the one formed by John Greaves c. 1640, in Egypt. But the coin in question seems to have been acquired probably earlier (?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind of you to take an interest in these insular matters. Perhaps you notice that Cumberland took time to unravel and comprehend Huygens&#039; then recent discoveries concerning the pendulum? No doubt better than I ever will</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS during the conquest of Baghdad a few years back I pointed out that when Parliamentary troops took Oxford around 1646, Black Tom Fairfax immediately sent troops to guard the Bodleian library. Likewise we seem to owe the preserved medieval glass at York and Beverley to his thoughtfulness. Let me know if you are ever in Yorkshire, the Fairfax tomb - in a very humble village church - is a memorable visit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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