The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Louis Savot (1579 - 1640)
French physician and numismatist. Author of Discours sur les mèdailles antiques (1627). Other Links: id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98802238.html - LC authority Authority - early modernRelevant locations: Birth place in France, Europe
References in Documents:
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b)
No 58
60
58
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16 : 12
Head of Hadrian.
..CAESAR TRAIANVS
HADRIANVS AVG PM TRP. COS..
Reverse I think RESTITVTORI ORBIS TERRARVM.
S C.
The Emperor stretching out his Hand
to a supplicant upon its Knee.
This Coin seems to be Iron: not that any
Roman Coins were originally known to be
of this Metal: but the Romans both in
the Common Wealth and the Empire
had false Coins which passed for silver but
were only Iron plated over with silver, of which
this probably was one:Savot found by Trial
that some silver Coins of the Roman would
follow the Loadstone: they were undoubtedly
of this sort. , Occo describes
a Coin of his Stamp to be not Brass
but Silver.p. 231.
Bargrave
S C.
The Emperor stretching out his Hand
to a supplicant upon its Knee.
This Coin seems to be Iron: not that any
Roman Coins were originally known to be
of this Metal: but the Romans both in
the Common Wealth and the Empire
had false Coins which passed for silver but
were only Iron plated over with silver, of which
this probably was one:
that some silver Coins of the Roman would
follow the Loadstone: they were undoubtedly
of this sort
a Coin of his Stamp to be not Brass
but Silver.