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Richard Dyer, Fellow of Oriel College ( - fl. 1701)

Contributed "more recent numismatic specimens" to the Ashmolean (MacGregor, 1). Relevant locations: Member of Oriel College, Oxford University
Relationships: Richard Dyer was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)

Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

Richard Dyer MA, Fellow of Oriel College, gave the Museum four gold coins and ten silver ones and also added, as a perpetual memorial a silver-plated brass half crown, and other clipped coins (both shillings and sixpences) which took the place of the legal English currency. Given in 1695. See the Vice-Chancellor's Catalogue, no. 252a et seq. and 5 at the end.

Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 252 Numisma impressũ capite quodam Regio. Ar. Medal impressed with the head of some king. Qui sequuntur quator aureos nummos et tres argenteos Donavit D Richardus Dyer A.M. & coll. Orriel socius i o Junii A o 1701. The following four gold coins and three of silver given by Richard Dyer, Fellow of Oriel College, June 1701.
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 5 Moneta recepta Anno hoc currente 1695. viz. & Semicorona ærea argento obducta; semicorona, soliduset semi-solidus accisa. Donavit Ds. Richardus Dyer A.M. et Collegij Oriel Socius. D Coins received in this current year of 1695, namely a copper half-crown silvered, half-crown, shilling and sixpence. Given by Mr Richard Dyer, MA and Fellow of Oriel College.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) TAB: XV
[Fig: figures of objects in Table 15]
To Mr. RICHARD DYER, Fellow of ORIEL College in Oxon, This Table is humbly Dedicated by JAMES PETIVER, F. R. S.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) TAB. LXV
[Fig: figures of objects in Table 65]
To Mr RICH. DYER, Fellow of Oriel College in Oxon, This Table is humbly Dedicated by JAMES. PETIVER